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Opinion

The institutional failures behind Singapore's latest COVID outbreak

Government must explain what went wrong and how

| Singapore
KTVs are not just playgrounds for the rich.   © Getty Images

Andy Wong is a political and business intelligence analyst based in Singapore.

Singapore is currently in the midst of its largest domestic COVID surge, with 192 cases directly linked to an outbreak centered around the country's karaoke lounges, known as KTVs.

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