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Looking back to the COVID-19 prevention and control strategies in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore, these three megacities have developed different paths from the similar strict control policy at the very beginning of pandemic. All three cities had reduced the number of infections and deaths through strict quarantine measures during the early phase of outbreak. As the epidemic continued to evolve, however, they eventually chose divergent response strategies and told totally different stories. This chapter will examine the divergence of anti-pandemic policies among these three cities, and the reasons, and explore the tug-of-war between science and politics in the process of decision-making.

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Titel: Divergence of Anti-pandemic Policies: Origin and Development
verfasst von: Edmund Li Sheng
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Buch: A Tale of Three Cities
Print ISBN: 978-981-9991-33-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-9991-34-1

Copyright-Jahr: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9134-1_2

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