Yesterday, the WP reiterated some of them, including forming an independent medical advisory board to make recommendations to the Government's medical team. In its manifesto, the party had said this would pre-empt blind spots, pointing out that the Government's initial advice on the wearing of masks appears to have been driven more by concerns of a shortage of masks.
It also called for more widespread community testing and for the TraceTogether smartphone app to gather data only"absolutely necessary for contact tracing". When vaccines become available, vaccinations should be required for residents of all ages and offered for free, so the population here can quickly develop herd immunity, said the WP.
On thriving in a post-Covid-19 world, it proposed policies to prepare Singapore for future pandemics and called for existing problems to be fixed.One of its suggestions was to convene an independent commission of inquiry after the crisis, to look at the lessons learnt and to institutionalise changes to the pandemic preparedness strategy, plan and protocol.
The party also called for a new, dedicated statutory board to proactively set and enforce standards for work and living conditions for all foreign workers on work permits.
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