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Infectious disease agency is a natural next step
It will be Singapore’s spearhead in fighting future pandemics at home and abroad
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A centralised public health agency is a natural next step in our evolution of public health responses, says the writer.
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Khoo Yoong Khean
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Singapore’s newly announced Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) may have had some people scratching their heads in puzzlement. What about the existing National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and all the other public health facilities that can be mobilised?
The new government agency under the Ministry of Health announced a host of post-pandemic organisational changes
