(Natural News) In Singapore, if you have the coronavirus and you lie about it, you can be slapped with a six-month jail sentence, or a fine of nearly $10,000. This is the result of the city-state’s very heavy-handed — but also very effective — response to the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected 117 people in the country, but has also resulted in zero deaths and a very high rate of discharge of 69.2 percent.

Singapore is implementing very strict measures for controlling the spread of the coronavirus. If you catch it in Singapore, you are obligated to answer as many questions as the authorities have, such as where you’ve been and whom you’ve met along the way. To verify this information and to contact anybody you’ve met, Singapore’s Ministry of Health is employing a dedicated team of “contact tracers” who will use police and surveillance footage, as well as ATM and other purchase records, to map out and verify where you went to in the days and weeks before you were diagnosed with COVID-19. If you refuse to comply with questioning, authorities can subject you to a fine of up to $10,000 (or nearly 14,000 Singaporean dollars), send you to jail for up to six months, or both.

“Contact tracing” is when experts go through a process of identifying anybody with whom the infected individuals have come into contact, and following up with them to see if they’ve also contracted the virus. According to experts from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, no country does contact tracing better than Singapore. The city-state has a “very strong” track record in disease surveillance, and their ability to detect new cases of infection is three times higher than the global average.

“Contact tracing teams have been working round the clock”  just to trace where coronavirus patients have been, according to a spokesperson from the Singapore Ministry of Health. As of March 5, Singapore has 117 confirmed cases. Along with that, 81 people, or 69.2 percent of cases, have been discharged from hospitals.

I'm stunned by the depth of #coronavirus information being released in #Singapore. On this website you can see every known infection case, where the person lives and works, which hospital they got admitted to, and the network topology of carriers, all laid out on a time-series pic.twitter.com/wckG8KpPDE

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