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Covid: No blame approach needed to find source of outbreak
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Patience and diplomacy will be needed if we want to find the origins of coronavirus, Prof Dale Fisher, of Singapore s National University Hospital, has said.
His comments came as US President Joe Biden ordered intelligence officials to redouble efforts to investigate where the virus started, including the theory that it emerged from a laboratory in China.
Prof Fisher told BBC World News there was still no clear evidence to identify its origins. We do need to be a bit patient but we also need to be diplomatic. We can t do this without support from China. It needs to be a no blame environment, he said.
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Singapore has not been spared.
In the fortnight till May 26, it has seen between 19 and 38 new community cases diagnosed each day - compared with the one to 16 cases a day in the previous fortnight - in spite of tighter safety measures.
To some, this evokes memories of the days leading up to the circuit breaker last year, when case numbers were rising.
But there are key differences. Singapore may be battling more infectious variants of the virus this time around, but it appears to have a firmer grip on the situation.
The number of new community cases is currently lower than the roughly 40-60 in early April last year, just before the circuit breaker was implemented.