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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Coronavirus: Singapore's testing rate is tops in ASEAN, with over 1m swabs doneAs at July 13, Singapore has tested over one million swabs from around 520,000 people for Covid-19. Based on data on the Ministry of Health's (MOH) website, about 143,000 swabs were tested between July 6 and 13.

16 July 2020
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. 62-year-old Singaporean man dies from Covid-19 complicationsA 62-year-old Singaporean man who had a history of diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol has died from complications due to Covid-19 on Tuesday (July 14), said the Ministry of Health (MOH).

15 July 2020
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Singapore enters technical recession as GDP plunges 12.6% in Q2: Flash dataSingapore's economy shrank by 12.6 per cent year on year in the second quarter, according to advance estimates from the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) on Tuesday (July 14), as circuit breaker measures to stem the coron

14 July 2020
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. S'porean man who works at Shatec among 178 new Covid-19 casesA 67-year-old Singaporean man, who is a non-teaching staff member at hospitality school Shatec, has been confirmed to have the coronavirus infection and is the only new case in the community as of Sunday (July 12) noon.

13 July 2020
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. 600 Covid-19 tests a day done on those with respiratory illness About 600 swabs a day taken from patients with acute respiratory illness (ARI) who visited polyclinics and Public Health Preparedness Clinics under the Swab and Send Home programme were tested for Covid-19 from June 8 to 28.

10 July 2020
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. 7 more worker dorms cleared of Covid-19 patientsSeven worker dormitories have been cleared of patients who test positive for the Covid-19 virus, and now house only recovered individuals and those who have recently tested negative for the virus.

9 July 2020
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Coronavirus: Four students and school teacher among new cases in the communityFour students and a school teacher among the 20 community cases announced on Tuesday.

8 July 2020
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Another coronavirus will hit humans within a decade, warns expertCovid-19 is the third coronavirus to jump from animals to humans, but it will not be the last, warns Professor Wang Linfa, director of the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School.

7 July 2020
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Coronavirus: 2-year-old Singaporean girl among 18 new community casesInfections in the community have increased with a two-year-old Singaporean girl among the 18 new community cases announced on Sunday (July 5) by the Ministry of Health (MOH).

6 July 2020
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Singapore GE2020: PAP says Chee Soon Juan should admit SDP campaign is based on false claimThe People's Action Party (PAP) on Thursday night (July 2) said the election campaign of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) is pointless now that a key plank of its campaign has been proven false.

3 July 2020
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Covid-19: Eye and face scans part of touch-free travel at Changi AirportFacial and iris recognition, instead of fingerprint scanning, will be the primary biometric identifier for travellers at Changi Airport's immigration clearance.

2 July 2020
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These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Singapore PR returning from India is first imported Covid-19 case since June 14One imported case was among the coronavirus patients announced in Singapore on Tuesday (June 30), said the Ministry of Health (MOH). The patient, a 44-year-old permanent resident, returned to Singapore from India on June 24.

1 July 2020
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