Singapore to turn away workers from India after record caseload

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (right) gestures while talking with Asean Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi, as he attends the Asean leaders' summit at the the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) secretariat building in Jakarta, on Saturday, April 24, 2021. - Reuters

SINGAPORE, April 24 (dpa): Singapore has announced that it would deny entry to long-term work visa holders from India, hours after New Delhi reported over 3000,000 new cases of the coronavirus over the last few days, the most any country has confirmed in one day.

"We have to do this for public health reasons," said newly appointed Finance Minister Lawrence Wong, who heads the government's pandemic taskforce.