Our current approach is to use safe entry, trace together and temperature taking for visits to all retail outlets and entry at workplaces. Many of these places have to be manned by workers who enforce the regulation.
I suggest a new approach which I believe is more effective and saves on manpower cost.
1. Have self service kiosks for temperate taking and safe entry recording. They can be placed at many locations with high traffic - train stations, bus interchanges, retail malls and food courts.
2. Have prominent signs to remind people to have safe entry recording and temperature taking a few times each day. If any person has a fever, advise that person to go to a covid testing center to take a covid test for free.
3. Set up testing centers at many convenient places that the public can find easily, e.g. a nearby community center. These centers will provide a free covid test to a person with a fever or other symptoms of covid and can also be used for testing of front line workers. However, a separate priority queue should be arranged for people who have symptoms.
We should make it convenient, easy and free for people with symptoms to be tested for free. This will encourage more people with symptoms to be tested. As these infected people have a higher risk of spreading the infection, we need to give more focus and special attention to these high risk cases.
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