At the entry to phase 2, responses were centred on social-economic impact, disparity, and lockdown burnout with the contested notion of continuing solidarity. At six weeks of lockdown, initial public responses with uncertainty turned into salient narratives of their lived experiences and hardship with lockdown and unmasking of societal weaknesses caused by COVID-19. ResultsДЄt the entry, public support for the lockdown was prevalent yet most responses were abstract with uncertainty. Content analysis was focused on identifying themes that emerged from the responses across the four-time points. Later, additional random 20 comments were collected to check the data saturation. We randomly collected 100 comments from the relevant articles on new organisationsвЂ™ Facebook and Instagram pages and conducted preliminary coding. In the study, we examined public responses to the government-announced вЂњcircuit breakerвЂќ (a local term for lockdown) at four-time points in Singapore: (1) entry, (2) extension, (3) exit of lockdown вЂphase 1вЂ™ and (4) entry of lockdown вЂphase 2вЂ™. Public health risk communication about the justification and scope of a lockdown was challenging as it involved a conflict between solidarity and individual liberty and a trade-off between various values across groups with different socioeconomic statuses. When control of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) required strong precautionary measures, lockdowns were necessarily implemented in countries around the globe. Mobility restriction is the most effective measure to control the spread of infectious disease at its early stage, especially if a cure and vaccine are not available.

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