Is extended circuit breaker necessary? | Should masks have been enforced earlier? | THE BIG STORY

The total number of Covid-19 cases in Singapore passes 10,000, after 1,016 new cases were confirmed on April 22. There are now 10,141 total cases here. Senior health correspondent Salma Khalik discusses the effectiveness of the circuit breaker with a panel of Singapore’s top infectious diseases experts. They tackle other hot-button topics such as whether mask-wearing should have been mandatory from the start of the outbreak, as well as the escalating situation in the foreign worker dormitories.

Panellists:
-Professor Leo Yee Sin, Executive Director, National Centre for Infectious Diseases
-Professor Teo Yik Ying, Dean, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
-Professor Dale Fisher, Senior Consultant, Division of Infectious Diseases, National University Hospital

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