SINGAPORE: The fight against the COVID-19, which has infected almost 5 million people across the world, is one that requires international unity ...
At the meeing, Mr Gan shared that Singapore’s circuit breaker measures have delivered promising results, with fewer new cases in the community., of which two were from within the local community. The numbers were lower on Monday partly due to fewer tests being processed at a laboratory that was reviewing its processes following an earlier apparatus calibration issue.
With two weeks left before Singapore's circuit breaker measures are expected to be lifted on Jun 1, the number of new cases in the community has decreased to an average of three per day in the last week, from seven per day in the week before.Mr Gan said that Singapore is also"proactively" managing the cases at the foreign worker dormitories, and that the situation"has also stabilised".
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