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Old Feb 14, 2020, 5:23 am
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boerne
 
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Originally Posted by Wong Jnr
So following on from the other case in tower 3 (DBS), her company has now said work from home indefinitely...
Talking with friends we're of the conclusion that it's still way over-cautious and to an extent are they trying to shun their corporate responsibility to their employees?
By keeping people away from the office they can then claim the employees are out of their control and therefore not their responsibility...
Singapore is at DORSCON orange, where it's a companies duty to measure and record employees temperatures twice in the day and if something were to go down, it would be managed in a controlled manner. Now as her company has not provided means for employees to measure their temperatures they are in a way letting the employees down.
Infected patients may shed the virus before they get symptoms. source NEJM
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468

The latest data suggests that the R (spread rate) is 4.08, (about twice as high as previously reported), that is 4 people are infected by each person with an infection.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....full.pdf+html
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