30 Apr 2020 (12pm - 10pm)
REACH
[11:07 am, 30/04/2020] : [Sent by Gov.sg – 30 Apr]
COVID-19: Safe distancing at retail establishments
Temperature screening and collection of particulars (for contact tracing purposes) at supermarkets, malls, wet markets
If you are visiting a supermarket/mall/wet market:
👝 Bring along your NRIC, or any other official photo ID with barcode for scanning (eg. Passion Card, Driver’s License)
😷 Wear a mask at all times
🚶♀ Go alone
↔ Observe safe distancing: keep at least 1m away from others
REACH
[12:02 pm, 30/04/2020] : Dear contributors,
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[12:02 pm, 30/04/2020] : Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will deliver his May Day Message today at 7.30pm.
In his Facebook page, he shared, “We can’t hold the usual May Day Rally tomorrow because of COVID-19. Instead, I will broadcast my May Day speech tonight at 7:30pm. You can watch it here on my Facebook Page, the PMO YouTube channel or on free-to-air TV.
In this crisis, it is vital for our unions, employers, and the Government to work together to help workers and families overcome these difficult times.”
Many of us are affected by the crisis. It is important that all of us work together to help affected workers and families overcome these difficult times.
📢 Topic 📢
How can we help others who are facing financial difficulties during this crisis?
👉 https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/pm-lee-to-deliver-may-day-rally-ntuc-covid-19-12678502
👉 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/manpower/employment-of-locals-holds-steady-in-q1-foreign-employment-plunges-on-early-covid
[12:09 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
1. Help to secure temp jobs or contract jobs available for those who urgently need finances to tide over the crisis.
[12:14 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
US trial using Remdesvir show positive results against covid-19 as larger patients group are involved in the trial as opposed to China Wuhan smaller trial that doesn't show positive results.
China also terminated the trial early.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/trump-fauci-see-hope-with-gileads-drug-in-coronavirus-fight
Bobby Tan
[12:15 pm, 30/04/2020] : Sponsored skill upgrade course for them so that they are ready for next job once the CB is over.
Eugene
[12:16 pm, 30/04/2020] : https://www.todayonline.com/world/covid-19-tripadvisor-lays-900-employees-quarter-its-workforce-amid-travel-slump?fbclid=IwAR3u6FVicJj2OJU51B0i-FcgeTiwE9Mu5TZGJ1NL6yiFYXK5MicjtIWPiiE
[12:27 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
1. Undergraduates graduating this year will need help to secure jobs.
2. Those affected by the virus crisis who lose their jobs will need jobs.
3. Thus targeted portal to categories them and help them to seek jobs become important.
4. Eg. The earlier announce getting organizations to participate in co-fund internships for newly graduate internships for 1 year before offering a full time job.
5. Getting Organisations to offer temp, contract jobs who are still thriving to those who lose their jobs to the virus pandemic through the portal can help those who seek help - will quickly help those who need jobs secure the temp or contract jobs - so that they will have incomes to tide over the crisis.
[12:30 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Important to establish the trade tie with 2 Asian Giants - China and India - on how to resume trade and travel amidst the virus pandemic - safely but not impeding business and trade. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-singapore-will-look-after-chinese-migrant-workers-12685136
Eugene
[12:37 pm, 30/04/2020] : https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/temasek-foundation-pledges-300000-free-meals-needy-stricken-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR0ZWuxIMpVzV9lw7DaGcFHWfzOwRdNRqUylRf6S3zOiv263uNUMASH8D2Q
bbmag
[12:40 pm, 30/04/2020] : just helping to jolt everyone’s memory abit, DPM heng actually announced 2 things about SGUnited jobs when he delivered the Resilience Budget.
other than SGUnited portal for jobseekers, he also shared about SGUnited traineeship programme
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/government-traineeship-programme-covid-19-coronavirus-12672152
https://www.wsg.gov.sg/SGUnitedTraineeships-Trainees.html
Bobby Tan
[12:50 pm, 30/04/2020] : Government besides helping people who lost job due to covid-19, Government should also help those who lost job last year but still unemployed especially now worst as affected by covid-19.
Poh S Lim
[12:53 pm, 30/04/2020] : I have read a lot of good reviews about remdesivir treatment for Covid-19 and hopefully this is the main treatment drug that will bring down the number of fatalities
[12:56 pm, 30/04/2020] : Continuing stimulus packages to businesses to help them jumpstart once the covid-19 pandemic ebbs and circuit breaker eases
Eugene
[12:56 pm, 30/04/2020] : agree
Poh S Lim
[12:59 pm, 30/04/2020] : It’s a virtuous cycle because businesses that survive this pandemic will be able to contribute to government revenue, if businesses fail, government revenue will be depleted
[1:10 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Good programme to help those graduating this year.
bbmag
[1:12 pm, 30/04/2020] : yea, think not many businesses will
be doing large scale hiring this year, so it’s good there’s this traineeship programme
and also public sector also doing hiring
[1:13 pm, 30/04/2020] : there’re still a few sectors hiring tho, like biomed, chemical and logistics
can check out e2i
or join the 2 telegram channels i shared previously ^^
[1:13 pm, 30/04/2020] : here, telegram channels for job alerts
[1:34 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/from-polymerase-chain-reaction-to-antibody-tests-a-look-at-covid-19-tests-and-their-uses
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[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
3 Phase Approach to keep virus at bay and revive our Economy, Business and Job
*Phase 1 - Keep virus at bay* (From now to 1 Jun)
_Circuit Breaker_
1. Virus directly threaten people's lives and infect many people making people sick.
2. Hence, this circuit breaker that will only end in 1 Jun - is to let the virus subside - as virus cannot jump host - while we attempt to ramp up testings to identify all possible infected people, isolate them, treat them so that community are safe.
3. Only when virus are control - and no longer active in our Community - can we revive our Economy.
_Impact on Business_
4. However, during this Circuit Breaker period - many non-Essential business cannot open (this is short term) - and workers in such business will not be terminated - but income temporarily affected - and Government Solidarity budget of $600 per individual can help to cushion the loss in income - and still can put food on the table and not go hungry.
5. After Circuit Breaker ends - some business like travel, leisure, tourism, f&b that cannot dine-in, manufacturing and services that depend on manufacturing and trade will still be affected --- unless other Countries have their virus infection under control.
_Impact on Workers_
6. Workers from travel, leisure, tourism - some have lose their jobs and now need to look for other jobs. Some are Singaporeans and some are PRs.
7. Another group of workers are those from the manufacturing, trade, and service sectors that depends on the other Countries reciprocal activities like consumer demand, manufacturing of parts, trade and services --- will also be affected ---- as if other Countries have still not control their virus threat - they will still maintain in a lockdown or partial lockdown state - and their workers will not be able to come out to work or consume.
8. To help this group of Singaporeans and PRs who may face longer term unemployment - by getting them to register with the VIrtual Portal to help workers find new jobs (PMETs/ non-PMETs) - will be urgently required as they lose their income and cannot sustain for long - as they need to put food on the table and pay bills.
9. Thus any jobs - eg. temp jobs, contract jobs, co-fund jobs, interships, traineeship jobs or even full-time jobs etc that are available in the Economy - will need to be open up to these groups of people who have lost their jobs.
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[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
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*Phase 2 - Circuit Breaker ends - open up all non-essential business with social distancing in place to prevent re-infection* (1 Jun onwards)
1. With the opening up of all other non-essential businesses when circuit breaker end - many are domestic business, SMEs, retails, F&Bs etc --- those business and workers can resume business activites and work - to generate income.
2. We can restart construction activities - when all dorms and non-dorms foreign workers are certified fit for work and no longer infectious.
3. Bright and thriving industrial sectors - can go on full steam - though must still observe social distancing, wear face masks outside home, packet food, maintain personal hygiene by washing hands, split workers (some work at home, some work in office).
4. So the impact on these domestic business and workers --- will be slightly lesser - as they can still go on their business activities as usual.
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[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
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*Phase 3 - Revive External Economy - where Trade is 3 times our size need Government to Government collaboration* (1 Jun onwards)
1. To revive our Economy, Business and Jobs - External Economy is our bulwark - for failing to focus on External Economy - it is not possible to ensure full employment.
2. The trick is - how to keep the virus at bay (while vaccine are still not ready, though treatment "Remdesvir" prove positive) -- while Government try to negotiate with other Government to resume trade and production?
3. Is it possible to trade in goods and services by going online with minimum people contact - but still ensure delivery of cargo by ships, planes, lorries, rail etc?
4. If our Government succeed to convince other Government to regain confidence and commence trading, manufacturing, logistics - then we can regain abot 3/4 of our Economy (as traveling, tourism and leisure, f&b for overseas tourists will still be in limbo).
5. Government collaboration can be in holding virtual conferencing to revive the physical activities all FTAs signed, revived the negotiation and talks on the RCEP, arrange safe trading and transporting of cargoes via ship, planes, lorries etc).
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REACH
[4:56 pm, 30/04/2020] : Preparing for a changed work life after coronavirus: President Halimah Yacob in May Day message
Society will see major changes to work, the workforce and workplaces after the coronavirus crisis, President Halimah Yacob said in her May Day message on Facebook on Thursday (April 30).
She added: "Companies and workers should take full advantage of this period to plan, rethink their strategies and ramp up workers' skills to prepare for work after Covid-19."
Madam Halimah also commented on this year's unusual May Day celebrations with social distancing measures and activities either taken online or cancelled.
More: https://str.sg/JQ3u
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[5:11 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-reports-no-new-domestic-coronavirus-cases-first-time-since-feb-peak
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Adam
[6:47 pm, 30/04/2020] : Reach can feedback to the relevant authority if the CB is lifted can the FWs be isolated at their respective places for at least one-month and not to loiter around if there is a possibility of second relapse since they take up most of the cases.
[7:07 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
SKorea medical experts confirm that there are no reinfection after certified fit - they are false positive.
A clinical expert panel on Wednesday also concluded that recovered coronavirus patients who later tested positive for the virus again were not “reactivated” or reinfected, but were false positives.
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[8:19 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
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CNA
Singapore’s economy will open up 'step by step' as COVID-19 cases fall: PM Lee
30 Apr 2020 07:30PM
(Updated: 30 Apr 2020 07:45PM)
“Some industries will open up earlier than others and recover sooner,” he said. These include sectors critical to keeping the *domestic economy* going and those that *keep Singapore connected to the world and to global supply chains.*
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[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
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*Phase 2 - Circuit Breaker ends - (1 Jun onwards)*
1. With the opening up of all other non-essential businesses when circuit breaker end - many are *domestic business*, SMEs, retails, F&Bs etc --- those business and workers can resume business activites and work - to generate income.
[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
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*Phase 3 - Revive External Economy - where Trade is 3 times our size need Government to Government collaboration* (1 Jun onwards)
1. To revive our Economy, Business and Jobs - External Economy is our bulwark - for failing to focus on External Economy - it is not possible to ensure full employment.
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[8:28 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
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CNA
30 Apr 2020 07:30PM
(Updated: 30 Apr 2020 07:45PM)
PM Lee said that Singapore will progressively restart its economy after it brings down the number of new COVID-19 cases, but this will “not be straightforward”.
“We need to step up COVID-19 testing and speed up contact-tracing. And we must proceed cautiously, with safeguards, so infections do not flare up again,” he said.
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[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
3 Phase Approach to keep virus at bay and revive our Economy, Business and Job
*Phase 1 - Keep virus at bay* (From now to 1 Jun)
_Circuit Breaker_
1. Virus directly threaten people's lives and infect many people making people sick.
2. Hence, this circuit breaker that will only end in 1 Jun - is to let the virus subside - as virus cannot jump host - while we attempt to ramp up testings to identify all possible infected people, isolate them, treat them so that community are safe.
3. Only when virus are control - and no longer active in our Community - can we revive our Economy.
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[8:37 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
CNA
30 Apr 2020 07:30PM
(Updated: 30 Apr 2020 07:45PM)
“Some industries will open up earlier than others and recover sooner,” PM Lee said. These include sectors critical to keeping the domestic economy going and those that keep Singapore connected to the world and to global supply chains.
“Other sectors will have to wait, especially those which attract crowds or involve close contact with other people, such as entertainment outlets and large-scale sporting events,” said Mr Lee. “We must keep all these different industries intact, ready to resume business when conditions allow.”
HELPING SIA THROUGH COVID-19 CRISIS
He cautioned that the tourism and aviation industries will take much longer to recover, because international travel will remain restricted as long as COVID-19 is still a problem around the world.
READ: Singapore’s aviation and tourism recovery will be very slow after COVID-19 but long-term outlook remains bright
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[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
_Impact on Business_
4. However, during this Circuit Breaker period - many non-Essential business cannot open (this is short term) - and workers in such business will not be terminated - but income temporarily affected - and Government Solidarity budget of $600 per individual can help to cushion the loss in income - and still can put food on the table and not go hungry.
5. After Circuit Breaker ends - some business like travel, leisure, tourism, f&b that cannot dine-in, manufacturing and services that depend on manufacturing and trade will still be affected --- unless other Countries have their virus infection under control.
_Impact on Workers_
6. Workers from travel, leisure, tourism - some have lose their jobs and now need to look for other jobs. Some are Singaporeans and some are PRs.
7. Another group of workers are those from the manufacturing, trade, and service sectors that depends on the other Countries reciprocal activities like consumer demand, manufacturing of parts, trade and services --- will also be affected ---- as if other Countries have still not control their virus threat - they will still maintain in a lockdown or partial lockdown state - and their workers will not be able to come out to work or consume.
[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
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*Phase 3 - Revive External Economy - where Trade is 3 times our size need Government to Government collaboration* (1 Jun onwards)
1. To revive our Economy, Business and Jobs - External Economy is our bulwark - for failing to focus on External Economy - it is not possible to ensure full employment.
2. The trick is - how to keep the virus at bay (while vaccine are still not ready, though treatment "Remdesvir" prove positive) -- while Government try to negotiate with other Government to resume trade and production?
3. Is it possible to trade in goods and services by going online with minimum people contact - but still ensure delivery of cargo by ships, planes, lorries, rail etc?
4. If our Government succeed to convince other Government to regain confidence and commence trading, manufacturing, logistics - then we can regain abot 3/4 of our Economy (as traveling, tourism and leisure, f&b for overseas tourists will still be in limbo).
5. Government collaboration can be in holding virtual conferencing to revive the physical activities all FTAs signed, revived the negotiation and talks on the RCEP, arrange safe trading and transporting of cargoes via ship, planes, lorries etc).
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CNA
30 Apr 2020 07:30PM
(Updated: 30 Apr 2020 07:45PM)
PM Lee said that Singapore will progressively restart its economy after it brings down the number of new COVID-19 cases, but this will “not be straightforward”.
“We need to step up COVID-19 testing and speed up contact-tracing. And we must proceed cautiously, with safeguards, so infections do not flare up again,” he said.
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[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
3 Phase Approach to keep virus at bay and revive our Economy, Business and Job
*Phase 1 - Keep virus at bay* (From now to 1 Jun)
_Circuit Breaker_
1. Virus directly threaten people's lives and infect many people making people sick.
2. Hence, this circuit breaker that will only end in 1 Jun - is to let the virus subside - as virus cannot jump host - while we attempt to ramp up testings to identify all possible infected people, isolate them, treat them so that community are safe.
3. Only when virus are control - and no longer active in our Community - can we revive our Economy.
---
[8:37 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
CNA
30 Apr 2020 07:30PM
(Updated: 30 Apr 2020 07:45PM)
“Some industries will open up earlier than others and recover sooner,” PM Lee said. These include sectors critical to keeping the domestic economy going and those that keep Singapore connected to the world and to global supply chains.
“Other sectors will have to wait, especially those which attract crowds or involve close contact with other people, such as entertainment outlets and large-scale sporting events,” said Mr Lee. “We must keep all these different industries intact, ready to resume business when conditions allow.”
HELPING SIA THROUGH COVID-19 CRISIS
He cautioned that the tourism and aviation industries will take much longer to recover, because international travel will remain restricted as long as COVID-19 is still a problem around the world.
READ: Singapore’s aviation and tourism recovery will be very slow after COVID-19 but long-term outlook remains bright
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[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
_Impact on Business_
4. However, during this Circuit Breaker period - many non-Essential business cannot open (this is short term) - and workers in such business will not be terminated - but income temporarily affected - and Government Solidarity budget of $600 per individual can help to cushion the loss in income - and still can put food on the table and not go hungry.
5. After Circuit Breaker ends - some business like travel, leisure, tourism, f&b that cannot dine-in, manufacturing and services that depend on manufacturing and trade will still be affected --- unless other Countries have their virus infection under control.
_Impact on Workers_
6. Workers from travel, leisure, tourism - some have lose their jobs and now need to look for other jobs. Some are Singaporeans and some are PRs.
7. Another group of workers are those from the manufacturing, trade, and service sectors that depends on the other Countries reciprocal activities like consumer demand, manufacturing of parts, trade and services --- will also be affected ---- as if other Countries have still not control their virus threat - they will still maintain in a lockdown or partial lockdown state - and their workers will not be able to come out to work or consume.
[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
----
*Phase 3 - Revive External Economy - where Trade is 3 times our size need Government to Government collaboration* (1 Jun onwards)
1. To revive our Economy, Business and Jobs - External Economy is our bulwark - for failing to focus on External Economy - it is not possible to ensure full employment.
2. The trick is - how to keep the virus at bay (while vaccine are still not ready, though treatment "Remdesvir" prove positive) -- while Government try to negotiate with other Government to resume trade and production?
3. Is it possible to trade in goods and services by going online with minimum people contact - but still ensure delivery of cargo by ships, planes, lorries, rail etc?
4. If our Government succeed to convince other Government to regain confidence and commence trading, manufacturing, logistics - then we can regain abot 3/4 of our Economy (as traveling, tourism and leisure, f&b for overseas tourists will still be in limbo).
5. Government collaboration can be in holding virtual conferencing to revive the physical activities all FTAs signed, revived the negotiation and talks on the RCEP, arrange safe trading and transporting of cargoes via ship, planes, lorries etc).
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