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Singapore faced the impact of the COVID-19 first as an imported disease and later having a relatively less severe community outbreak, and a more severe sub-community outbreak among migrant workers. Singapore named its lockdown as the Circuit Breaker, and lobbied community support for containing the disease. High quality health services help to provide a sense of security and confidence to the effectiveness of the government among residents of Singapore. Systematic communications of the disease characteristics and situations to the public also play an important role to enhance community resilience. Being a city state, Singapore’s unique approach to control the spread of the disease may not be applicable to other countries; however by sharing its experience, it might help other countries to develop their idiosyncratic plans to combat COVID-19 within their own borders.