Originally Posted by
helvetic
Singapore in particular makes evident how accurate their counts are through the transparent reports, where you can generally see clear links between cases, where each case leads to aggressive contact tracing, and where most discovered growth comes from such methodical follow-up and not random people showing up at hospitals.
Have to repeat what I wrote about a month ago:
I have first hand experience of being one of contact tracing case in Singapore.
I was called by MoH telling me that I was in the same clinic where a person later diagnosed with COVID19 visited earlier. Once he was diagnosed I was called the next day. Then, every day for next 14 days I got a call checking my health and self-assessment. I was not asked to self-isolate and was told that I am free to leave and come back to Singapore. The importance was to have my phone on all the time so I can answer their calls. If I missed call, I was getting SMS 'MoH is trying to reach you. Please call back at this number'.
Considering that contact tracing identified about 9000 local residents, chances be one of them is 1:500 for the total population.