Following the looming adjustment of Singapore’s Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (DORSCON) to Green from Orange, the Multi-Ministry Taskforce will also be standing down.
The management of the Covid situation in Singapore will instead be taken over by the Ministry of Health instead.
However, MOH added that if the situation takes a turn for the worst, they will reactivate an “appropriate multi-agency crisis management structure.”
Snippet of MOH’s press release
Standing Down of the Multi-Ministry Taskforce
The Multi-Ministry Taskforce (MTF) was convened in January 2020 to mount a swift and coordinated whole-of-Government response against COVID-19.
With the transition to DORSCON Green, the MTF will be stood down and the Ministry of Health will assume the management of the COVID-19 situation.
However, if the situation worsens significantly, we will reactivate an appropriate multi-agency crisis management structure.
MOH will continue to keep a close watch on the evolving COVID-19 situation. Ongoing surveillance of local and imported cases and through international partnerships, such as GISAID, will help to provide early warning signals of new variants with greater transmissibility or severity.
We will also continue to monitor our healthcare capacity. If there are signs that our healthcare capacity is becoming strained or a new and more dangerous variant has emerged, we may have to revise the DORSCON level, and reactivate some of our community and border measures again at short notice.
There may be a need for the population to urgently receive boosters to ensure that we remain protected.
Should this happen, we seek the support of everyone in Singapore to rally together again as we have over the past three years to overcome any new threat.