Cases Surge But Singapore Hasn't Blinked on Reopening- Yet

Coronavirus: Singapore reported 450 cases of local infection on Thursday.

Singapore is hitting Covid-19 case levels not seen since the early days of the outbreak, putting the city-state's recent pledge to slowly open up and live with the virus to the test. So far, they haven't blinked -- even as local infections surpass numbers reached when Singapore implemented its "circuit-breaker" shutdown in April 2020 and pushed cases so low that it became one of the stars of the Covid Zero approach to the pandemic. Previously, infection spikes like this were met with stringent restrictions like bans on indoor dining and closing gyms. The country reported 450 cases of local infection on Thursday, while those who are seriously ill or in intensive care ticked up to 33 people, according to data by the health ministry.