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Singapore has thorough testing and contact tracing. They also take quarantine extremely seriously.



And they only have ~5 million people to deal with. Easier to contain a virus in a city-state as small as Singapore.


Why is that true? They are densely populated. Fewer people also means fewer resources: for example they couldn't supply themselves with masks.




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