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VICTORIA — In modelling the COVID-19 outbreak in B.C., Dr. Bonnie Henry and her team are also studying other places for clues as to when restrictions might be lifted here.

“We of course are watching what people are doing in other countries where they’re trying to take off restrictions to see if there’s ones that we want to stop,” said the provincial health officer in announcing that B.C. will release revised modelling later this week.

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Already a disturbing trend has emerged in Singapore, the Asian city state that was formerly regarded as a model for containing the outbreak.

“In Singapore they’ve started to increase their restrictions again because they saw an increase in cases,” Dr. Henry said recently by way of underscoring the risk of lifting restrictions too soon.

Singapore was hit early by the novel coronavirus outbreak, owing to its close ties to China and frequent travel from outside.