Covid-19 spurs Singapore's biggest unemployment jump since SARS

A view of boats and vessels docked opposite the Marina Pier in Singapore on Sunday (May 3). Pandemic-stricken Singapore has seen its steepest drop in employment since the Severe Acute Respiratory System (SARS) outbreak of 2002-3. - AFP

SINGAPORE: Pandemic-stricken Singapore has seen its steepest drop in employment since the Severe Acute Respiratory System (SARS) outbreak of 2002-3.

Singapore's Health Ministry on Saturday confirmed 447 new Covid-19 (coronavirus) infections, the smallest daily rise in two weeks, taking the city-state's tally of cases to 17,548 with 16 virus-related deaths.