Details out next week on first sectors to re-open after circuit breaker

Progress will depend on how many new cases arise after first step; if outbreak worsens, measures may be reintroduced, says Minister Gan

Janice Heng

Published Tue, May 12, 2020 · 09:50 PM

Covid-19

Singapore

DETAILS of the economic sectors or businesses involved in the first step of Singapore's post-circuit breaker re-opening will be shared next week, with many of these likely to be "more essential services", said Health Minister Gan Kim Yong at a Tuesday press conference by the Multi-Ministry Taskforce (MTF) on Covid-19.

He reiterated that even as the country nears the end of circuit breaker measures on June 1, not everything will re-open at once.

"We are steadily making progress in controlling the outbreak, both in the community as well as in the migrant worker dormitories," said taskforce co-chair and …