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Time to look at streamlining contact tracing measures too?

SafeEntry check-ins at premises have become messy with various options; check-outs seem unclear

From May 17 last year, it became mandatory to do a SafeEntry check-in at various locations. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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SINGAPORE - Last month, the multi-ministry task force handling the pandemic announced that it would streamline Covid-19 safe management measures to cover five key parameters: group sizes, mask wearing, workplace requirements, safe distancing, and capacity limits.

The thinking was that doing so would make it easier for people to remember and understand the rationale for these measures and, in turn, comply with them.

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