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Singapore PM Says Cases Must Ease Before Economy Restarts

Singapore “felt the full brunt” of global economic downturn
Total number of coronavirus cases in country has topped 16,000

Scotts Road is nearly empty of traffic in the shopping district of Singapore on April 20.Photographer: Wei Leng Tay/Bloomberg

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By Philip Heijmans

April 30, 2020 at 11:41 AM UTC

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Singapore can only relax its partial lockdown measures and progressively restart its economy after the city-state brings down the number of new coronavirus cases, according to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who cautioned that things won’t ever get back to what they were before.