Dr. Fong agrees they have to up their communication to get more public confidence in the way they are working

Health Ministry's Permanent Secretary Dr James Fong says as challenges are evolving day by day and with a lot of changes occurring, the priority is to sort their responses for cases of COVID-19 and the process of communicating this to the people is currently coming second.

However, he says they agree that they have to improve on their communication side of things.

When questioned whether he will consider public relations initiative earlier in the day to curb the panic driven events, Dr. Fong says they have to first respond to cases.

He was also asked whether doing press conferences late in the night is practical as people may miss out on critical information.

Dr. Fong says he has to struggle a bit in the day where he has to respond to new cases of COVID-19 and also work on mobilising resources for the responses.

He says they will have to relook at the whole strategy moving forward.