2020–21 Singapore Circuit Breaker Measures - Wikipedia

Preventative measure by the Government of Singapore to ease community spread of COVID-19

2020–21 Singapore circuit breaker measures
Part of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
(clockwise from top) Marina Bay Sands and ArtScience Museum lit up with messages of hope Controlled entry into Compass One Tables and seats cordoned off with tape Empty shelves after panic buying at a FairPrice supermarket
Date	7 April 2020 (2020-04-07) – 1 June 2020 (2020-06-01) (1 month, 3 weeks, and 4 days)16 May 2021 (2021-05-16) – 13 June 2021 (2021-06-13) (4 weeks)22 July 2021 (2021-07-22) – 9 August 2021 (2021-08-09) (2 weeks and 4 days)
Location	Singapore
Caused by	COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
Goals	Containment of the pandemic
Methods	Default remote work for non-essential workplaces Default Home-Based Learning (HBL) for all schools Closure and suspension of religious activities Restrictions on social gatherings/home visitors (during lockdown, only 2 person is allowed; otherwise 5 persons) Food establishments are prohibited from dining in, only allowed to offer takeaways, drive-thru and delivery services Masks were made compulsory from 14 April 2020 and relaxed on 29 March 2022 (outdoors) and 29 August 2022 (indoors), and the remainder on 13 February 2023 (public transport and some healthcare areas) Closure of some essential shops that were made non-essential from 21 April 2020 (some restrictions were lifted on 12 May 2020)
Status	All restrictions were lifted by 13 February 2023

The 2020–21 Singapore circuit breaker measures were a stay-at-home order and cordon sanitaire implemented as a preventive measure by the Government of Singapore in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country on 7 April 2020.

The measures were brought into legal effect by the Minister for Health with the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020, published on 7 April 2020.[1] Singapore had relatively few COVID-19 cases before the emergence of the Delta and Omicron variants from 8 May 2021 to 29 March 2022.[2]

With its relative success in curbing the early spread of the virus in Singapore, the term "circuit breaker" and its measures was subsequently adopted by other countries, particularly in Canada and the United Kingdom.[3][4]

Chronology

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Singapore recorded its first COVID-19 case on 23 January 2020. With that, many Singaporeans have purchased and worn masks when not at home; practiced social distancing and on 7 February 2020, Singapore raised the Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (DORSCON) level from Yellow to Orange in response to additional local cases of uncertain origin.[5]

Prelude (27 March)

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On 24 March, the Multi-Ministry Task Force announced stricter measures to combat the spread of COVID-19, after a huge spike in cases originating from returning Singaporeans in the community. These measures include the closure of entertainment venues, tuition and enrichment centres and places of worship. Malls, retail establishments and tourist attractions were required to reduce their crowd density to stay open. Gatherings of more than 10 people outside work and school are prohibited.[6]

Lockdown measures

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On 3 April 2020, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced a nationwide partial lockdown, known as a circuit breaker, to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Singapore. These measures came after an increase of unlinked cases over the preceding month, as well as the risk of a huge cluster of infections. Most of the workplaces were converted to remote work as default during the lockdown and schools were transitioned to home-based learning thereafter. As dining-in is a high-risk activity; all food establishments were only allowed to offer take-away, drive-thru and delivery of food. Non-essential advertising at shopping centres are not allowed to be shown or advertised and only advertising from essential service offers and safe management measures such as mask wearing and social distancing are allowed. These measures only took effect from 7 April 2020 to 1 June 2020,[7] 16 May 2021 to 13 June 2021[8] and 22 July 2021 to 9 August 2021.[9]

On 14 April, Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong announced that the wearing of masks became compulsory when not at home with immediate effect, with fines and prosecution for offenders who refuse to do so.[10]

Tightened measures (21 April)

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After discovering that the unknown number of cases was greater than expected, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on 21 April an extension of the circuit breaker to 1 June. Existing measures were also tightened until 4 May initially, including shrinking the list of essential services, such as closing all close-contact service providers such as hair salons, as well as restricting entry to certain hotspots like wet markets and some essential retail franchises going by the last digit of one's ID number.[11] Popular markets used an odd/even date entry restriction; ID ending with odd numbers are only allowed entry on odd dates of the month and ID ending with even numbers are only allowed entry on even dates on the month.[12] On 21 April, the Ministry of Education brought forward the 4-week school holidays for all MOE Kindergartens, primary, secondary and Pre-University students, which are usually held in June, to May. Institutes of Higher Learning extended their Home-based Learning.[13] The Singapore franchise of McDonald's also shut all of its restaurants islandwide, as a response to a number of its employees being infected.[14]

Relaxed measures (2 May)

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Some restrictions were relaxed progressively in stages to prepare for the end of the circuit breaker on 1 June. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) shops and essential condo activities were allowed to reopen on 5 May, followed by businesses like home-based bakeries, some food shops, barbers (only basic haircuts), manufacturing of confectionery, and laundry shops on 12 May. Schools resumed face-to-face lessons for smaller groups in graduating cohorts and those requiring urgent assistance on 19 May.[15][16]

On 8 May, the MOH announced that all TCM shops are allowed to sell retail products again from 12 May, after receiving feedback from seniors that travelling to the initially allowed 130 TCM medical halls was too far for them.[17]

SafeEntry and TraceTogether

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The Ministry of Health mandated the use of SafeEntry and TraceTogether, which is also called TraceTogether-only SafeEntry (TT-only SE) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scanning in/out using the TraceTogether-only SafeEntry (TT-only SE) either through the TraceTogether app or token was made mandatory for all Singaporeans and at all places such as cinemas, restaurants, workplaces, schools and shopping malls for contact tracing purposes. These included the device called SafeEntry Gateway (Check in and check out) to enable users to scan in and out. In addition, TraceTogether also showed vaccination status and pre-event testing (PET) status whether the person test positive or negative for COVID-19. Tokens could be collected from the community centres and vending machines.[18][19][20][21][22]

Post-circuit breaker (reopening)

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Earlier in 2020, three planned phases of reopening were announced, which were part of a wider zero-COVID effort. These phases ended on 8 May 2021 because of the Delta variant.

• Phase 1 (a loosened form of Heightened Alert) started on 2 June 2020. This phase allowed for gatherings and home visits of up to 5 people, but no dining-in and unmasked activity is allowed.[23]
• Phase 2 ran between 19 June 2020 (with dining-in and unmasked activity of up to 2 persons) and 17 July 2020 (with dining-in and unmasked activity of up to 5 persons).[24][25]
• Phase 3 officially started on 28 December 2020 and ended on 8 May 2021.

Restrictions due to new Variants of Concern (Delta and Omicron) started on 8 May 2021 and ended on 29 March 2022, during which gatherings of more than five people were prohibited. Two separate lockdowns ran from 16 May 2021 to 13 June 2021[26][27] and 23 July to 9 August 2021, but in between 14 June 2021 and 23 July 2021, the government only allowed a reopening similar to Phase 1 of June 2020.[28] The government then changed the reopening plan to only allow vaccinated persons to use certain services from August 2021.[29]

In addition, it was announced on 14 December 2020 that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for use in Singapore, with the first batch slated for around end of December 2020.[30] On 3 February 2021, the Moderna vaccine was approved for use in Singapore, with the first batch arriving around March 2021.[31] Subsequent batches for both vaccines were planned to arrive throughout 2021.[30][31] A successful mass vaccination campaign was launched that achieved very high vaccination rate.[32]

Non-compliance

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Through 2021, there were several high-profile instances of people, such as Phoon Chiu Yoke, refusing to abide by the circuit breaker regulations.

See also

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• COVID-19 lockdowns
• COVID-19 lockdown in China
• COVID-19 lockdown in India
• COVID-19 lockdown in Italy
• COVID-19 community quarantines in the Philippines
• Enhanced community quarantine in Luzon
• Indonesia large-scale social restrictions
• Malaysian movement control order

References

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1. ^ "COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020". Singapore Statutes Online. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
2. ^ "Updates on Local Situation, Border Measures for Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Thailand and Precautionary Measures to Minimise Transmission from Tan Tock Seng Hospital Cluster". www.moh.gov.sg. 30 April 2021. Archived from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
3. ^ Stewart, Heather; Marsh, Sarah (18 September 2020). "PM considers imposing Covid 'circuit break' across England". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 December 2021. The notion of a "circuit breaker" – or partial lockdown – was introduced in April in Singapore by the prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong. It saw schools and all but essential workplaces closed, as well as restrictions on restaurants and other public places.
4. ^ "'Circuit breaker' measures needed to prevent Omicron from overwhelming ICUs, science table says". cbc.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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12. ^ "Visits to popular markets to be restricted based on the last digit of your IC number". www.gov.sg. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
13. ^ "Mid-year Holidays Brought Forward as Schools Adjust Academic Calendar; Institutes of Higher Learning to Extend Home-based Learning". Base. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
14. ^ "McDonald's Singapore suspends all restaurant operations, including delivery and takeaway until 4 May". The Straits Times. 19 April 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
15. ^ Wong, Lester; Kurohi, Rei (2 May 2020). "Tightened circuit breaker measures extended for another week; some activities allowed to resume from 5 May". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
16. ^ Ho, Olivia (2 May 2020). "Coronavirus: Schools to bring back small groups of students from 19 May, with focus on graduating cohort". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
17. ^ Wong, Kai Yi (8 May 2020). "Coronavirus: All TCM shops allowed to sell retail products from 12 May". The Straits Times. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
18. ^ "COVID-19: New app launched to help monitor and report migrant workers' health status". CNA. Archived from the original on 5 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
19. ^ Wong, Lester (16 June 2020). "All foreign workers have to download and activate TraceTogether app by June 19: MOM". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
20. ^ "Use of TraceTogether app or token to be made compulsory for people attending large events, high-risk activities". TODAYonline. 4 October 2020. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
21. ^ Wong, Lester (20 October 2020). "TraceTogether check-ins to be compulsory at public venues in S'pore by end-December". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
22. ^ "Mandatory TraceTogether-only SafeEntry brought forward to May 17". CNA. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
23. ^ "Ending circuit breaker: phased approach to resuming activities safely". www.gov.sg. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
24. ^ "Moving into Phase 2: What activities can resume". www.gov.sg. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
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26. ^ "Updates on Local Situation and Heightened Alert to Minimise Transmission". www.moh.gov.sg. 14 May 2021. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
27. ^ "Group sizes down from 5 to 2, dining-in suspended as Singapore tightens COVID-19 measures". CNA. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
28. ^ Jalelah Abu Baker (10 June 2021). "Up to 5 in a group allowed from Jun 14; dining-in to resume on Jun 21 in phased easing of COVID-19 curbs". CNA (Channel NewsAsia). Retrieved 10 June 2021.
29. ^ Auto, Hermes (6 August 2021). "S'pore to allow dining in from Aug 10, group size cap eased to 5 for those fully vaccinated | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
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People Medicalprofessionals Ai Fen Corona Rintawan Li Wenliang Liu Wen Xie Linka Zhang Wenhong Researchers Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud Roberto Burioni Chen Wei Kizzmekia Corbett Andrea Crisanti Peter Daszak Christian Drosten Neil Ferguson Dale Fisher George F. Gao Azra Ghani Sarah Gilbert Guan Yi Kentaro Iwata Katalin Karikó Matt Keeling Trudie Lang Li Lanjuan W. Ian Lipkin Ma Xiaowei Shabir Madhi Allison McGeer Camilla Rothe Shi Zhengli Moncef Slaoui Mike Tildesley John Todd Wang Chen Wang Guangfa Drew Weissman Yuen Kwok-yung Zeng Guang Zhang Jixian Zhang Yongzhen Zhong Nanshan Officials WHO Tedros Adhanom (Director-General of the WHO) Bruce Aylward (Team lead of WHO-China COVID-19 mission) Maria Van Kerkhove (Technical Lead for COVID-19 response) Michael J. Ryan (Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme) By location Frank Atherton (Wales) Ashley Bloomfield (New Zealand) Catherine Calderwood (Scotland) Chang Shan-chwen (Taiwan) Anutin Charnvirakul (Thailand) Chen Shih-chung (Taiwan) Kenneth Chuang Yin-ching (Taiwan) Victor Costache (Romania) Fabrizio Curcio (Italy) Carmen Deseda (Puerto Rico) Jaap van Dissel (the Netherlands) Christian Drosten (Germany) Francisco Duque III (Philippines) Anthony Fauci (United States) Francesco Paolo Figliuolo (Italy) Graça Freitas (Portugal) Henrique Gouveia e Melo (Portugal) Matt Hancock (United Kingdom) Hamad Hasan (Lebanon) Greg Hunt (Australia) Tony Holohan (Ireland) Jeong Eun-kyeong (South Korea) Fahrettin Koca (Turkey) Li Keqiang (China) Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez (Mexico) Michael McBride (Northern Ireland) Oriol Mitjà (Andorra) Zweli Mkhize (South Africa) Doni Monardo (Indonesia) Alma Möller (Iceland) Saeed Namaki (Iran) Ala Nemerenco (Moldova) Nguyễn Thanh Long (Vietnam) Noor Hisham Abdullah (Malaysia) Ali Pilli (Northern Cyprus) Daniel Salinas (Uruguay) Jérôme Salomon (France) Fernando Simón (Spain) Gregor Smith (Scotland) Su Ih-jen (Taiwan) Łukasz Szumowski (Poland) Theresa Tam (Canada) Anders Tegnell (Sweden) Þórólfur Guðnason (Iceland) Sotiris Tsiodras (Greece) Harsh Vardhan (India) Víðir Reynisson (Iceland) Carla Vizzotti (Argentina) Vlad Voiculescu (Romania) Chris Whitty (United Kingdom) Lawrence Wong (Singapore) Jeff Zients (United States) Others Chen Qiushi Brett Crozier Fang Bin Fang Fang Joseph Ashitey Hammond Li Zehua Captain Tom Moore Qiu Menghuang Ren Zhiqiang List of deaths due to COVID-19
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