The Straits Times releases In This Together, a behind-the-scene look at Singapore's Covid-19 story

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, the bets and risks involved in purchasing vaccines, and the concerted push by hospitals to step up capabilities while their overwhelmed staff endured struggles of their own.

The book, which is published by Straits Times Press, also examines efforts to stamp out the virus in dormitories occupied by more than 300,000 foreign workers,Interspersed between chapters are profiles of pandemic front-liners, survivors and people who died from the virus.

"If someone were to read this 20 years down the road, they would understand what the first years of the pandemic were like, how Singaporeans felt, and why we did what we did," she added. "The delay allowed us to tell a fuller story," she said. But a decision had to be made on where to end the book, and the new Omicron variant provided that milestone.

In an introduction to the book, Straits Times editor Warren Fernandez, who is also editor-in-chief of SPH Media Trust's English, Malay and Tamil Media Group, wrote:"The book is not meant to be triumphalist or self-laudatory, but an honest record of the most severe test Singapore has faced in over a generation, and which will continue for some time yet as the crisis is far from over."

 

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In This Together? Sing has actually become a symbol of discrimination: migrant workers locked up in jail-lile dorms, foreigners excluding from 1st stage of vaccination, foreigners forbidden to travell to see their family. The title shld be: the story of selfish Singapore

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