Respondents wanting an isolation buddy during COVID-19 outbreak Singapore 2020
As of April 2020, entering the third week of circuit breaker measures to restrain the spread of COVID-19 in Singapore, 79 percent of the respondents stated that they preferred to have an isolation buddy. In response to the growing number of new cases, Singapore announced on 3 April a set of preventive "circuit breaker" measures to be applied from April 7 to May 4, with an extension to June 1 announced on April 21.