March visitor number to Singapore hits 17-year low amid pandemic
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THE number of visitors to Singapore in March plunged 85 per cent from a year ago to 240,000, the lowest since the Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak in 2003
Visitors from China, which accounted for 20 per cent of total tourist arrivals in Singapore, numbered just 1,500 as Beijing imposed travel restrictions on its people to contain the coronavirus from spreading.
With movements worldwide severely restricted and…
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