Singapore strives to avert the second wave of COVID-19
Despite the government’s stringent measures, there has been an emergence of new clusters, courtesy of new SARS-CoV-2 variants in the island nation. By Dr. Manisha Arora Pandit Over the past year, SARS-CoV-2 has undergone 6,600 mutations in its spike proteins and produced a number of variants – some of which have caused much concern in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, Singapore is in the midst of a struggle to contain the local spread of the new viral variants in order to prevent a second wave. There has been an emergence of new clusters recently, including the prominent ones...