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In Mumbai, officials said the five passengers were put under surveillance soon after they returned from China in the last 48 hours. While three of them are residents of Jogeshwari, Kalyan and Nala Sopara, two are from Pune. “Since the passengers from Kalyan and Nalasopara have shown signs of a mild cold and cough, we have asked them to come and get admitted to Kasturba Hospital so that we can run some checks and rule out any infection,” said the BMC executive health officer, Dr Padmaja Keskar. Epidemiologist Dr Pradeep Awate said none of them had exhibited any coronavirus symptoms. Two of the five passengers had been to Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak. The virus has spread to several countries, including the US, Thailand, Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. “Those two passengers are also currently asymptomatic, like the other three who had been to other parts of China,” said Dr Awate. The local health officer said that the Nala Sopara … [Read more...] about Indian nurse in Saudi ‘infected’; virus reaches Singapore, Vietnam

However, the current outbreak does not appear as deadly as SARS, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his annual Lunar New Year message. The pandemic killed 33 people in Singapore, one of the worst-hit countries outside China. … [Read more...] about Singapore ramps up coronavirus fight

It has also demanded that Singapore reveal the number and identities of Malaysian prisoners who have been executed using kicking — instead of the proper gallows — in Changi. … [Read more...] about Singapore invokes ‘fake news’ law after executioner claims ‘brutal’ hanging tactics used in botched executions

Meanwhile, the biomedical manufacturing cluster's output rose 10.7 percent year on year in the year and 10.3 percent in the month, the precision engineering cluster's output fell 2.5 percent in the year but grew seven percent in the month, the transport engineering cluster's output contracted 1.8 percent in the year and 14.1 percent in the month, the chemicals cluster's output fell two percent in the year and 5.2 percent in the month, and the general manufacturing industries cluster's output increased 1.5 percent in the year but declined ten percent in the month. … [Read more...] about Singapore’s manufacturing output falls 1.4 pct in 2019

Both the growth rates of the fourth quarter and the whole year are advance estimates of the ministry, which are computed largely from data in October and November. They are intended as an early indication of GDP, and are subject to revision when more comprehensive data become available, said the ministry. … [Read more...] about Singapore records 2.2-pct economic growth in Q4 2018