Han Fook Kwang is also Senior Fellow at RSIS wrote in his commentary that the start of Covid-19 saw people fixated on cleanliness but, sadly, that was just a momentary phase and Singapore might have just missed its golden opportunity to get its cleaning act together. He added that Inculcating a sense of civic responsibility towards public hygiene and cleanliness is an all or nothing effort – like wearing masks where no one is allowed to do otherwise, thus there has to be a zero-tolerance mindset.

…Han Fook Kwang is also Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.