Singapore has no plans to raise Dorscon alert for Covid-19 to Red
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SINGAPORE authorities have no plans to raise its novel coronavirus risk alert level from Orange to Red, even as it is adopting additional measures in a bid to reduce the risk of community transmission.
"I want to say categorically that we have no plans to go to Dorscon Red," Gan Kim Yong, Minister for Health and co-chair of a multi-ministry task force set up to deal with Covid-19, said at a press conference on Friday evening, referring to the country's colour-coded Disease Outbreak Response System Condition.
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