Singapore’s pandemic journey
When the Covid-19 pandemic began, economic growth dove, unemployment spiked, and the doors were slammed shut on travel. Since then, the country has been on the long road towards recovery. The Business Times looks back at the pandemic journey thus far.
Elysia Tan
COVID-19
The rise and fall of Covid-19 cases has both prompted and been affected by government measures, from the 2020 “circuit breaker” to mask mandates, social distancing, and mass vaccination. But the starkest difference has been due to the emergence of more transmissible variants.
VACCINATION as at Aug 6, 2022
79%
received booster shot
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