A man rests at Merlion park in Singapore on May 15, 2020. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)
SINGAPORE (ANN): Singapore's circuit breaker will formally end on June 1, the republic's multi-ministry task force on the Covid-19 outbreak announced on Tuesday (May 19), saying the economy would then be reopened gradually in three phases.
At a virtual press conference, the task force outlined the broad plan to transition Singapore in phases out of its period of stringent measures eventually into a new normal that will be remain until an effective vaccine or treatment for Covid-19 is developed. But the ministers stressed that reopening plans were not a return to life before Covid-19.
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