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• Ng Wei Jie (pseudonym), 34, Chinese Singaporean
• Doctor, anesthetist
• Fatigue of medical workers after Delta and Omicron waves and impact on medical
staff turnover
• Son’s Covid-19 diagnosis and experience of isolation
• Impacts of isolation on self and family
• Normalisation of Covid-19 in Singapore
• Reactions toward TraceTogether and restrictions in Singapore
• Future travel plans
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• Christina (pseudonym), 69 years old, Filipino
• Experience of writing a book to process experience of Covid-19 infection
• Reflections on social isolation after visiting mother in Manila
• Reflections on impacts of Covid-19 on family relationships
• Covid-19 after-effects (long Covid symptoms)
• Family members’ experiences of Covid-19
• Process of receiving vaccines as someone who has contracted Covid-19
• Impacts of Covid-19 on mental health, Covid-19 mental health aftercare, survivor’s guilt
• Comparison of Covid-19 measures adopted in Singapore, Europe, the US, and the Philippines
• Reflection on political motivations behind vaccine rollout in the Philippines
• Treatment of domestic workers during Covid-19 in Singapore versus in the Philippines
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• Thomas Chia (pseudonym), 30 years old, Chinese Singaporean currently in the UK
• Research associate at a college in London
• Covid-19 related restrictions in London and Singapore
• Impacts of Delta and Omicron waves on self and family members
• Process of receiving vaccines as someone who has contracted Covid-19
• General vaccination process in Singapore versus the UK
• Comparison of differences in mobility after vaccinations in Singapore versus the UK
• Financial impacts of Covid-19 on job in the UK
• Reactions to government Covid-19 control orders in Singapore and the UK
• VTL (Vaccinated Travel Lane)
• Sister’s accidental breaking of Covid-19 rule
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• Emily Wong (pseudonym), 51 years old, Singaporean
• Homemaker
• Was an admin on the swab ops team for around four months
• Treatment of migrant workers and their living conditions
• Infected with Covid-19 and recovered while isolating at home
• Travelled to the UK in November 2021
• Vaccinated (3 shots total), but was hesitant about getting vaccines
• Unhappy with the restriction on gathering numbers and broke the rule a few times to head out with her household
• Shortage of ART kits for a period
• Received sanitiser, reusable masks, and gargle from Temasek and vouchers from the government
• Reflection on how Covid-19 helped her understand new things about her husband and daughter
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• Christina (pseudonym), 68 years old, Filipino
• Experiences of travelling in the early days of the pandemic
• Perception of relative lack of measures taken against Covid-19 in Singapore in January and February 2020
• Contact with Covid-positive individuals at place of residence
• Experience of home quarantine
• Personal experience of contracting Covid-19 in March 2020, hospitalisation, and treatment
• California-based family members’ experiences of contracting Covid-19 in December 2020
• Impacts of Covid-19 on domestic helper’s travel plans
• Covid-19 after-effects (long Covid symptoms)
• Impact of Covid-19 infection on mental health, survivor’s guilt
• Digital community of Covid survivors
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• Thomas Chia (pseudonym), interviewee is 30 years old, Chinese Singaporean, PhD candidate studying in the UK
• Personal experience and perception of the global spread of Covid-19
• Flying back to Singapore from the UK at the beginning of the pandemic
• Impacts of Covid-19 on academic life, family, Singapore society
• Personal experience of contracting Covid-19, hospital and quarantine in Singapore
• Mental strain of remaining in quarantine facility
• Role of personal religion during quarantine experience
• ‘Circuit breaker’ policies and government control orders in Singapore
• Discussion and perceptions of TraceTogether controversy
• Comparison of Singapore and UK Covid-19 measures
• Family and personal adaptations to working from home
• Interest in volunteering for medical experiments on Covid-19 survivors
• Parents’ experience in Ecuador at the beginning of the pandemic
• Role of Internet memes in understanding the pandemic
• Discussion of some positive effects of Covid-19 on society
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• Ng Wei Jie (pseudonym), interviewee is 33 years old and a Chinese Singaporean
• Doctor, anaesthetist
• Origins, initial reports and perceptions of Covid-19
• Seniors' memories of, and comparison to the SARS epidemic
• Covid-19 protocols and staff procedures in hospitals
• Perceptions of public behaviour during the pandemic
• Experiences seeing Covid patients
• Progression of the pandemic from earlier to later stages
• Travel restrictions preventing visits to Malaysian wife's family
• Impact of lockdown on young child
• Covid restrictions on society at large
• Opinion on control orders
• TraceTogether privacy controversy
• Government monetary aid to the population and healthcare workers
• Church charitable collections for foreign workers and stranded Malaysian workers
• Perceptions of the healthcare response to foreign worker outbreaks
• Reflections on the responses of different countries to the pandemic
• Concerns among healthcare workers regarding Covid vaccines