Elderly shoppers explained that they live alone and are reluctant to ask their children for help with errands as they can also be susceptible to the coronavirus.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - A day after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made a special appeal to older Singaporeans to stay home during the coronavirus outbreak, many senior citizens were still out doing their weekend grocery shopping at markets on Saturday .
Most of the seniors wore surgical or cloth masks, although some of them had pulled their masks down their faces or were tugging at them. Madam Lim agreed that senior citizens should stay home, especially those who are very old or have health conditions. Public servant Adeline Ong, 64, said:"Young people can also be vulnerable to the virus, so we don't want to send them out to do things for us and endanger them."
Outside the market, there were short queues in front of food stalls as people kept a safe distance while waiting to buy breakfast. Mr Tam has been trying to avoid the market, but he made the grocery trip on Saturday as he had run out of fresh food, he said. National Environment Agency officers patrolled both the wet market on the ground floor and the hawker centre on the floor above it.
An elderly woman, who declined to be named, said that she visited the market later than usual, at about 8.30am, to avoid crowds. She lives alone and did not want to trouble her children to do grocery shopping for her, she said.
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