FEBRUARY 16 — So, Covid-19 rages on. There have now been 67 cases in Singapore. And despite rapid government response — airport health screening, work place temperature screening, exhaustive contact tracing for each infected person — cases keep rising. This virus is clearly...
FEBRUARY 16 — So, Covid-19 rages on. There have now been 67 cases in Singapore. And despite rapid government response — airport health screening, work place temperature screening, exhaustive contact tracing for each infected person — cases keep rising.
While in parts of Wuhan there are suggestions the mortality rate is approaching 3 per cent, in Singapore things don’t seem to be so serious. A recession now — off the back of 2019 which saw growth fall to a decade low 0.7 per cent — will have a real impact on Singaporean jobs, businesses, lives.
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