Singapore's number of coronavirus cases is one of the highest reported outside of China, and its effect has companies, workers, and small business owners on edge (by kippmpark)
Many offices in Singapore require employees to take their temperature twice a day and have moved meetings online.
Healthcare professionals face discrimination and double up on precautionary measures, afraid of bringing the virus home At the epicenter of the epidemic, healthcare professionals have had to take up extra shifts as hospital visits surge with people afraid they may have coronavirus symptoms. The hospital workers are taking extra precautionary measures to protect themselves from infection.
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