Singapore Returns to Work-From-Home as Covid Cases Surge
- Tightens rules to allow two people to meet in restaurants
- Booster shots to be extended beyond seniors to younger group
People during lunch break at the Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore on Sept. 14.
Photographer: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
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Singapore made work-from-home the default and tightened rules to allow a maximum of two people to meet in restaurants or other social settings, as it seeks to rein in mostly mild cases that could otherwise quadruple in two weeks and overburden hospitals.
Primary school students will have to shift to learning from home, while booster shots get extended beyond seniors to a younger age group, the government said on Friday. The moves, which take effect from Sept. 27 for about a month, appear to shift away from the country’s stated transition toward living with the virus.