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Singapore recorded its first COVID-19 case on 23 January 2020. With that, many Singaporeans have purchased and worn masks when not at home; practiced social distancing and on 7 February 2020, Singapore raised the Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (DORSCON) level from Yellow to Orange in response to additional local cases of uncertain origin.
The head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, warned in March that the war in Ukraine could take the global food crisis to "levels beyond anything we've seen before". [ 121 ] A potential disruption to global wheat supplies could exacerbate the ongoing hunger crisis in Yemen , [ 122 ] Afghanistan [ 123 ] [ 124 ] and East Africa . [ 125 ]
9 January: In the wake of China's reopening, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung announced that travelers from China to Singapore would not be required to undergo pre-departure COVID-19 testing. [5] 16 January: The Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty vaccine will be available to children aged six months to four years. [4]
SINGAPORE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Singapore Airlines <SIAL.SI> said it had secured up to S$19 billion ($13 billion) of funding to help see it through the coronavirus crisis and expand afterward, in a ...
The agreement, which came into force in July of last year, was created to alleviate the worsening global food crisis, which had been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.
Singapore's prime minister said on Thursday the government would ensure that national carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) <SIAL.SI> survives the COVID-19 crisis, but warned that the economy would ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . The first case in Singapore was confirmed on 23 January 2020. Early cases were primarily imported until local transmission began to develop in February and March.
WFP was in a similar crisis last year, he said, but fortunately he was able to convince the United States to increase its funding from about $3.5 billion to $7.4 billion and Germany to raise its ...