"Responses of Singapore to COVID-19 Pandemic: The Whole-of-Government Approach” by NCPA Research Fellow Dr Celia Lee

From the forming of a multi-ministry task force to oversee Singapore’s whole-of-government (WOG) effort to combat COVID-19 in January 2020 to the implementation of ‘Circuit Breaker’ measurements in April 2020, Singapore has shown the world how the nation has kept COVID-19 transmission under control through a coordinated WOG approach. In her paper entitled “Responses of Singapore to COVID-19 Pandemic: The Whole-of-Government Approach”, Dr Celia Lee, Research Fellow at Nanyang Centre for Public Administration (NCPA), walks readers through the various stages and measurements that the Singapore government had put in place to halt COVID-19 transmission in the country since its first reported COVID-19 case in January. Her paper is among others in the book Good Public Governance in a Global Pandemic by the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) to provide readers with an overview of national approaches taken in response to COVID-19 in the early phase of the pandemic. 

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