{"id":10586,"date":"2021-01-20T01:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3118375\/coronavirus-could-singapores-vaccine-drive-become"},"modified":"2021-01-20T01:30:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T01:30:14","slug":"coronavirus-could-singapores-vaccine-drive-become-a-victim-of-the-citys-own-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/coronavirus-could-singapores-vaccine-drive-become-a-victim-of-the-citys-own-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: could Singapore\u2019s vaccine drive become a victim of the city\u2019s own success?"},"content":{"rendered":"On January 20 last year, a 66-year-old man from the central Chinese city of Wuhan arrived in Singapore and headed to the Shangri-La hotel on Sentosa island for a family holiday. Within three days, he became Singapore\u2019s first case of the novel coronavirus that had by then infected people in mainland China, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States.One year later \u2013 after an eight-week partial lockdown and a surge of cases in dormitories for low-wage migrant workers that caught the government off\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3118375\/coronavirus-could-singapores-vaccine-drive-become\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 20 last year, a 66-year-old man from the central Chinese city of Wuhan arrived in Singapore and headed to the Shangri-La hotel on Sentosa island for a family holiday. Within three days, he became Singapore\u2019s first case of the novel coronavir&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10587,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions\/10587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}