'Too early' to consider relaxing Covid-19 rules on live music, alcohol consumption: Wong

Singapore

IT is still "too early" to consider relaxing curbs on higher-risk activities such as live music and the sale of alcohol past 10.30 pm, which fall outside the 5 key parameters for safe-management measures, but the Covid-19 multi-ministry taskforce is studying this "very carefully", Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said on Friday (Mar 11).

"These are being considered but whether or not it's in the next step or in the subsequent steps, we'll have to make a judgment and it's too early to say for now," Wong, who co-chairs the taskforce, said in response to a question from The Business Times.