People walk past a screen showing the capacity of people allowed to enter a shopping mall in Singapore, 22 April 2020.
Singapore has extended its ‘circuit breaker’ period to 01 June 2020 and will further tighten existing measures to curb the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease.
The government will impose entry limits on supermarkets and wet markets, temperature screening to malls, and the closure of non-essential businesses.
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