Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave an update on the Covid-19 outbreak in Singapore on Thursday (March 12), following the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic. 

This is the second update by Mr Lee on the coronavirus situation. The first was a recorded message which was televised on Feb 8, a day after Singapore raised its Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (Dorscon) alert level to Orange. 

In the earlier message, Mr Lee said, among other things, that if the number of cases keeps growing and the fatality rate remains low like influenza, Singapore will have to reconsider its strategy at some point to allow hospitals to focus on the most vulnerable patients.