Makansutra founder Kf Seetoh warned that prices are getting higher, warning in a Feb 26 Facebook post “So brace yourself.”
He posted a screenshot of a Feb 15 Straits Times article titled “Household incomes rose in 2021 to above pre-Covid levels as Singapore economy recovered.”
China study shows 4th Sinopharm jab offers no increased protection against Omicron
A recently published review of the Covid vaccine Sinopharm showed that a fourth jab may not produce an additional increase in antibodies against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus behind the current pandemic.
Discovered in South Africa only last November, the variant, which spreads more easily than the Delta variant that was dominant in many countries in 2021, quickly overtook Delta all over the globe in its pace of spread.
‘PM Lee Hsien Loong would do well to keep his focus on his own country’ — Netizen
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loongs’s remarks on India in a speech in Parliament earlier this month caused a stir between the two countries that normally enjoy friendly relations.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs conveyed to Singapore’s High Commissioner Simon Wong that “remarks by the Prime Minister of Singapore (about India) were uncalled for”.
Maid told to isolate herself out in the cold inside a car after experiencing COVID symptoms
Hong Kong is in the middle of a Covid surge, and some of its most marginalised residents— domestic helpers—are suffering from the fallout.
One maid, a 28-year-old Filipina identified as only ‘Josie’ in a Feb 28 article in the South China Morning Post, said she was asked by her employer to isolate herself in the car while waiting for the results of a Covid-19 test after she had experienced having chills and fever, possible Covid symptoms.