Assignment on Corona Virus - Data Collection and Interpretation

Running head: CORONA VIRUS
CORONA VIRUS
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
Outcome-1.......................................................................................................................................2
Data Collection and Interpretation...................................................................................................2
Outcome 2:.......................................................................................................................................7
Data Synthesis.................................................................................................................................7
Outcome 3:.......................................................................................................................................8
Analysis and Reflective...................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................11

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Outcome-1
Data Collection and Interpretation
From the perspective of the World Health Organization (WHO), health and safety in any
occupation imply in management of every attribute of employee's health and safety and
authorizes a primary motive of preventing hazards. WHO determines that health is an essential
factor that an employee should maintain, and take their job responsibilities after ensuring all the
health and safety measures. In recent times, the outbreak of Covid-19 Coronavirus, in Wuhan,
China, rose an alarming situation in many countries (Who.int 2020). It has turned into a
pandemic as declared by WHO, as many countries are connected to China, and travelers
including business and tourism has transmitted and scattered the virus to multiple countries
especially in Singapore. Singapore is considered in this study for examination of the effect of
Covid-19 Coronavirus, as it is well connected to China for business purposes, as well as
Singapore being a tourist attraction; there are millions of travelers every year exposing them to
various foreign viruses compromising the overall standard of living and health standards. It has
been observed that Singapore though a small space, have 3.62 million Chinese visitors by the
end of the year 2019, most of them being business visitors (Wong Leo and Tan 2020).

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Figure 1: the number of China Visitors to Singapore by the end of 2019 and in
January 2020
(Source: Ceicdata.com 2020)
In this perspective, Singapore corporate offices are taking strict measures so that they can
fight the Coronavirus, and uplift the health and safety procedures in the workplace. Therefore,
the thesis of this study, understands the effects of Corona Virus in Singapore, as well as the
process of flexible work practices, they are adapting to fight the virus, in the professional field.
The explanation regarding the measures taken for standardizing health and safety in the
workplace will also be enunciated with the support and explanation of some laws and
regulations.
Covid-19 Coronavirus is considered a pandemic, as there have been a total of 80,000
cases worldwide, who are affected by the virus, and some are in critical situations along with
some death reports. In this perspective, the World Health Organization has declared a "Public
Health Emergency of International Concern", where workplaces are told be a significant cause of
being aware as hundreds of people come to one area to work eventually exposed to various kinds