SINGAPORE: Immediate measures are necessary to stem the spread of COVID-19 and protect people's health, even if they do take a short-term toll on the economy, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat on Tuesday (Apr 14).
In the meantime, the Government should do what it can to soften the impact and help people and businesses to recover when the pandemic recedes, he said in a Facebook post on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest World Economic Outlook report.