At about the same time as the outbreak of New Guinea pneumonia (CCP) in Taiwan, the Singapore Ministry of Health today (14) officially announced the upgrading of the epidemic prevention level and the return to a lockdown mode. The new measures are tentatively scheduled to be implemented from May 16 to June 13, about a month, the public in this period in principle all changed to work at home, the number of parties and home visitors from the current limit of 5 people to 2 people, the supply of food stores can only do take-away or delivery. Local sources said that today, the major supermarkets again appeared crowded, people in the purchase of additional daily necessities and food to cope with the lockdown arrangements.
Singapore’s new coronavirus cases increased, originally scheduled for May 26 launch of the non-quarantine travel agreement between Hong Kong and Singapore (travel bubble) may be blocked. The Hong Kong government has said today that Starport will assess the situation in the next few days, the travel bubble plan is likely not to go ahead as scheduled.
In the past week, the number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus in Singapore increased to 71, in the previous week, the number of confirmed cases was 48, the number of confirmed cases can not find the source increased from 7 to 15 cases, there are signs of invisible chain of community transmission, so the only way to control the spread of the virus is to enter a lockdown mode again.
The current situation in Singapore is indicative of the current global economic woes. The epidemic is not receding, international shipping is halted indefinitely, economic and trade activities cannot operate normally, governments are busy with epidemic prevention, but also to find ways to extend the many anti-epidemic support to ensure social stability, but also for how to promote the internal demand to hold up the weak economy and think hard, meaning that the global economic recovery still has a long way to go…
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