SINGAPORE, April 30 — Singapore’s prime minister said today the government would ensure that national carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) survives the Covid-19 crisis, but warned that the economy would have to open up slowly and some jobs would disappear forever. “SIA has always flown...
Thursday, 30 Apr 2020 08:56 PM MYT
“SIA has always flown Singapore’s flag high all over the world and made us proud. We will spare no effort to enable it to do so again,” Lee Hsien Loong said in his May Day speech. The city-state has among the highest number of infections in Asia due to mass outbreaks in cramped migrant worker dormitories. It has extended widespread curbs to contain the spread of the virus, which include the closure of most workplaces and schools until June 1.
He said industries such as those critical to the domestic economy will open up earlier and recover sooner. But others that attract crowds such as entertainment outlets and large-scale sporting events will have to wait.
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