Following the government’s lead, universities in Singapore, a semi-authoritarian city-state of almost 6 million people, have taken a top-down approach to managing the coronavirus. The National University of Singapore, or NUS, describes its strategy as containment, decongestion and contact tracing. The relative safety of the three Singapore universities — NUS, Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University — comes with certain trade-offs. Kathlyn Laiu, a 19-year-old freshman who lives on the NUS campus, said the only party she attended last year was on Zoom, for Halloween. “I think we are blessed with rather compliant students.”Another advantage is that unlike in the United States, most students in Singapore do not live on campus.

Source: bd News24 January 11, 2021 12:33 UTC