SINGAPORE - For most of the last two years, Covid-19 was a smouldering fire that Singapore struggled to put out.
To prevent stray embers - that is, unlinked cases - from reigniting the blaze, infected people were taken to designated recovery facilities and their contacts ordered to stay home and test themselves regularly.
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