SINGAPORE, April 6 — Singapore announced S$5.1 billion (US$3.55 billion) in additional economic spending such as wage support, waiver of levies and one-off payments to combat the coronavirus pandemic. “This is an unprecedented budget for extraordinary times,” Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat...
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SINGAPORE, April 6 — Singapore announced S$5.1 billion in additional economic spending such as wage support, waiver of levies and one-off payments to combat the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, Singapore said it will close schools and most workplaces for a month as part of stricter measures to curb a recent jump in coronavirus infections. Singapore has reported a total of 1,309 infections and six deaths from the coronavirus.
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