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cord-300300-jqi4ylrx	Lin, Ray Junhao	From SARS to COVID‐19: the Singapore journey	2020-05-31		.txt	text/plain	2611	159	50	The 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak challenged the nation's public health system and now the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is presenting a greater challenge. This framework serves as the foundation for the national responses to any outbreak and is divided into four levels of incremental severity (green, yellow, orange and red), based on risk assessment of the public health impact of the disease and the current disease situation in Singapore (Box 1). Workers who tested positive were transferred to community isolation facilities if they had mild symptoms, or to the NCID and public hospitals for further treatment and isolation. Health care workers in direct contact with COVID-19 patients who developed fever or symptoms of acute respiratory infection were encouraged to declare their symptoms to their superiors and present themselves to the screening centre, to be managed based on their exposure risk (Box 4).	./cache/cord-300300-jqi4ylrx.txt	./txt/cord-300300-jqi4ylrx.txt