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Singapore Covid-19 Cases DashBoard

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Thanks for sharing! I have been building a collection of useful statistics links for Covid-19. This singaporean one takes the cake for detail - a case by case breakdown and network graph, amazing!

Here are some nice resources I've come across: Obligatory global john hopkins/arcgis: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

Another global map, but with different stats: https://thewuhanvirus.com/

A detailed frequency table with sources: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus...

A japan dashboard: https://covid19japan.com/

Nextstrain has a bioinformatics overview here: https://nextstrain.org/ncov

https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID

This is also a good source, daily updates

We should really applaud Singapore Govt. here. I don't think any other place has handled the situation so well and so transparent.

P.S I live in Singapore. Ask me anything

Taiwan also has been rather efficient and transparent in how they handled the situation. And the results speak for themselves for a country with so many economic ties to China...

It so happens that, because of the recent political situation, mainland China suspended individual trips (not groups) to Taiwan last year.

Probably quite a silver lining there.

Edit: Got it the wrong way round: individuals, not groups.

The PRC didn’t suspend tourist groups. They stopped allowing PRC passport holders to get individual tourist visas to go on holiday in Taiwan. A family I know were in Taiwan as part of a tour group when news of the virus broke.

It was 34C in Singapore today (About 93F). No doubt the government response has been proactive, but you'd think the weather might be a factor in successful containment of the infection?

Yes weather could be a factor, but given the high population density of Singapore, I would attribute the success to the Govt.

Note that there have been more than 100 cases now with no deaths.

Some of the less known measures that Govt. took

* Encouraging companies to plan Business continuity plans

* Govt. Whatsapp group provides accurate information, preventing spread of fake news

* Govt gave each household masks just to stop the panic

* Free healthcare for all suffering from coronavirus

Being one city helps too. Harder to have underserviced areas.

Another one from Singapore. I agree that the official reaction seems well handled!

(Not that there wasn't a slight panic and crazy hoarding stories and there certainly are flaws in company/building management policies, but .. that's not to blame on the government)

Agreed. A lot of SEA countries been handling it pretty well(with the exception of Indonesia). I'm from Malaysia and even though there's been a huge political storm recently, we still have the highest recovery rate among all fo the countries that are suffering.

I gotta say Singapore is killing it with all his tech when it comes to corona. Majulah!

What are the main take aways for your countries actions that help its success? I believe Vietnam has also been doing a lot of effective action sofar.

Transparency is the key take away. Official government whatsapp notifications helped curb fake news. The information was readily available. Ministers and other senior health officials was on the news, providing accurate information.

The contact tracing and isolation was near perfect. Strict measures were taken for people who disobeyed orders and put people in danger.

Curious..what has vietnam been doing?

Basically sameish strategy as Singapore , including lockdowns of area’s / schools when necessary. They’ve been vigilant since the initial outbreak.

Got any spare toilet paper, mate? :P

(Context: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-03/loo-roll-limit-costco...)

Japan for instance has 20 times more people than Singapore, but only 3 times more cases. Epidemic started at the same time in both countries. Not saying that Singapore isn't doing a good job, but are they really doing much better than other countries?

Again not to undermine the efforts by Japan, but the way they handled the Diamond Princess was not up to the mark.

Because of their mis-management a lot of people contracted the Virus.

It should be noted that all schools in Singapore are open along with all work places

I live there, too. I concur.

> I don't think any other place has handled the situation so well

Can't really fault the extensive and sweeping measures China has taken, and the compliance and efforts of the Chinese people.

Singapore is somewhat similar with strict measures and people complying for the greater good.

Looking at the URL here. Wasn't the whole point of naming it COVID-19 to not have it relate to / blamed on a geographic location.

Calling it the Wuhan Virus is not great.

Domain was registered about 11 days before it was named COVID-19, and is also irrelevant to people looking for info about the virus.

I disagree. If viruses are forever associated with the locations in which they first spread, perhaps authorities might be a little sharper in controlling the spread.

You mean like the Spanish Flu? (My comment is sarcastic...)

It reminds of syphilis. Back in the day, syphilis was known as the French disease by the Germans, the Italian disease by the French, the Polish disease by the Russians, the Spanish disease by the Dutch, and the Christian disease by the Turks.

Thanks for focusing on the real issue at hand and keeping justice alive

This site likely started before it was officially named.

Is there anything similar for South Korea?

I found something interesting about South Korea. According to Worldometers South Korea have tested a lot more people than anyone else - see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/

Then if you look at the Country breakdown here https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (scroll down a bit) South Korea has 5,186 confirmed cases but only 27 are listed as Serious or Critical. This seems to go against the '20% need hospital treatment' narrative and would support the theory that there are a lot of mild cases going undetected (as SK has tested more widely than any other country).

But ... I can't find a source for that '27' Serious or Critical number.

South Korean here. We're testing literally everyone who has had any sort of contact with the cult that is at the center of the recent explosion of cases. Like, if you've been attending an art class run by members of the cult, you'll get a call.

If you're unrelated to the cult but want to get tested anyway, you can just show up at a drive-thru testing center (yes, that's a thing) and it will take less than 10 minutes. On-demand testing costs around $150, but it's free if you turn out to be infected or have recently been to any place where you might have picked up the virus, such as Daegu.

This system obviously picks up a lot of mild cases.

I haven't seen the 27 "Serious or Critical" figure published anywhere domestically. It might be based on an arbitrary criterion (e.g. "patient is being given oxygen") that is only used for reporting to international organizations. Meanwhile, the government has begun to move mild cases from hospitals to other facilities (where they will be quarantined) in order to make room for more severe cases that they're clearly anticipating. There have been over 30 deaths already, so it's unlikely that there are only 27 severe cases.

Thanks. I'm trying to get a handle on the 'how many people need to be hospitalised' statistic because I don't think we've got any outside-of-China stats on that, and its one of the most worrying dimensions of the outbreak.

Just googling for 코로나 19 맵 will give you several. The first one I saw was:

http://livecorona.co.kr/

Thanks.

I found a source for the SK stats: http://ncov.mohw.go.kr/tcmBoardView.do?brdId=&brdGubun=&data...

Does 격리해제 mean something like 'Serious cases?'. Google translates it as 'isolate'

격리해제 means they are no longer quarantined, i.e. they are considered to be cured.

Thanks

Is it because they haven't had time to become serious yet? Its still early days in s.korea compared to china? Will the proportion go up in 2-3 weeks?

A good dashboard in HK https://wars.vote4.hk/en/

Wish they listed the total number of people tested so far though. Since I think that's a statistic that is important to properly interpret the number of cases.

You can always suggest it on their GitHub issues. They also accept PRs. https://github.com/nandiheath/warsinhk

I really like the network graph showing relationships between clusters and patients

Interesting tech stack.

Erlang + Ruby?

https://i.imgur.com/BZWiC0p.png

I wonder how accurate this Wappalyzer [1] is?

[1] https://www.wappalyzer.com/

Correct, I used ruby, specifically on rails. No erlang though. Python to scrape the data for the backend.

I'm really curious how the weather plays an aspect here. Singapore being on the equator

Not so sure. While outside in Singapore is hot and humid, indoor environments where most people spend most of their time are aircon cooled, UV shielded and dry, ideal conditions for the virus

The clusters that did develop expanded rapidly.

I'm gonna go with the excellent government response and tracing on this one

The ONLY dashboard in the world showing Age, Gender & Nationality Distribution.

https://wuhanvirus.kr/#location-card has age, sex, and location statistics for South Korea, but it's not in English.

Great! I can guess which is age & sex.

It's a good time to show how important web accessibility is. The wording inside the HTML Canvas can't be translated.

Stay strong & safe @kijin!

Surprisingly, Singapore has lots of Indians but I don't see Indians in Singapore who got this virus. And no report of India being affected either. What gives?

Note the the ones marked Singaporeans can include people of Indian origin. The data only indicates that Indian citizens in Singapore haven't been confirmed with COVID-19.

Also, the clusters identified have more Chinese origin people.

That's mostly because Chinese are a numerical majority, and there also was a major cluster in a mainly Chinese church.

There are Indian citizens who are affected. Local transmission didn't happen as India made prompt effort to cancel chineese visas and health screening in airports who come from affected countries.

Also, quarantine efforts for rescued citizens from Wuhan was efficiently done.

India has reported 5 cases officially out of which 3 people have fully recovered. There were 2 new cases yesterday. A third case is also suspected from a foreign national.

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