Mr Lim Yaohui, 39, government photojournalist
Photographer
Largest takeaway: The virus is on the market and we have no idea who could also be contaminated with it. I’ve to watch out and observe good private hygiene when I’m out capturing my assignments.
If I really feel unwell, I do an antigen speedy take a look at right away and see a physician if crucial. If everybody acts responsibly, we will hold the variety of Covid-19 circumstances down and cut back the load on our healthcare employees.
Largest problem: For the images I took inside Singapore Common Hospital’s isolation wards with Covid-19 sufferers and the Emergency Division, I needed to be cautious to maintain a distance in order that I’d not get within the medical doctors’ and nurses’ approach.
I additionally needed to shoot in a approach that nobody may determine the affected person.
Mr Lee Hup Kheng, 58, artwork editor
Infographics editor
Largest takeaway: To have performed an element in presenting tales in regards to the best struggle of mankind, towards one frequent enemy, and the drama that unfolded inside every passing chapter in Singapore.
Largest problem: For the design workforce, the largest problem was to work on a guide that carries a bag of feelings, from triumphs to tragedies, utilizing rigorously chosen visible instruments reminiscent of design, graphics and illustrations.
Ms Stephanie Yeow, 51, image editor
Photograph editor
Largest takeaway: It’s actually arduous work placing a guide of this magnitude collectively. However I additionally realised how mammoth the duty was and nonetheless is for a authorities to handle this pandemic properly. It isn’t simple to manage a virus like this and this guide tells precisely what went on behind the scenes, which members of the general public would by no means know… except they learn this guide.
Largest problem: We’ve amassed an enormous assortment of Covid-19-related photographs over the previous two years as our photographers are capturing what we name “Covid generics” day-after-day. These are photographs of something regarding Covid-19, be it secure administration stickers, queues, checking out and in of institutions – you title it, we’ve got most likely shot it. My job was to search out the gems amid the jewelry and immortalise them on this all-important guide.
Ms Lee Hui Chieh, 42, publishing editor of Straits Instances Press
E-book sub-editor
Largest takeaway: The guide introduced house the truth that so many individuals have been striving so arduous, at important sacrifice and threat, to maintain Singapore secure and going robust regardless of the pandemic. I really feel grateful for all these efforts and lucky to be residing in Singapore.
Largest problem: Having to maintain up with the speedy developments within the pandemic and the countermeasures was difficult.
Ms Sharon Loh, 55, copy editor
E-book copy editor
Largest takeaway: Singapore knew very early that it needed to scrap for every thing it wanted – from masks at hand sanitisers to vaccines. Unsung procurement brokers went on to sources to purchase what we wanted.
Then there was the vaccine knowledgeable panel that will need to have had ice of their veins as they trawled by means of large quantities of information on vaccine candidates. They did this whereas trials had been ongoing, so they might place their bets on what they thought was most promising. On the threat of getting it mistaken – although it turned out to be proper – Singapore wished to get within the queue early for a vaccine and never be caught flat-footed.
Largest problem: How you can inform a narrative that many Singaporeans already knew a lot about, and had been most likely heartily sick of.
Along with the unique interviews the authors had, we wished to convey, as viscerally as we may, the human expertise behind the bald info. The opposite factor was the way to write it in order that it wasn’t self-congratulatory, however a devoted account of occasions.
