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While speaking at a meeting with Grassroots leaders which included business owners recently, Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing pointed out that “surgical mask is not the solution” when comes to dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak, and that no amount of masks will be adequate if all people in Singapore use it.
Citing the situation in Hong Kong as an example, Mr Chan said that Singapore will soon be in a difficult time like Hong Kong where there is a lack of mask supply for medical staff.
Mr Chan said that if Singapore has done like what Hong Kong did where politicians appear at events wearing masks, then the country’s hospital system would have been broken.
Besides that, Mr Chan also spoke about the incident of Singaporeans clearing out supermarket shelves as they stock up on rice, instant noodles, hand sanitisers, and more after the country’s DORSCON level was raised to orange as the coronavirus outbreak continued to escalate.
Describing the entire thing as “xia suay” or “disgraceful”, Mr Chan said, “We embarrass ourselves, disgraceful, we disgrace ourselves.”
Mr Chan added that he was “ashamed” at the behaviour of some Singaporeans who were stocking up on so-called essential items in fear that the country would run out due to supply chains being affected by the global outbreak.
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