Coronavirus: $3.2 million raised for fund to help front-line workers fighting outbreak

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SINGAPORE - About $3.2 million have been raised so far for a fund that aims to help front-line workers combating the coronavirus outbreak, said Minister for Social and Family Development Desmond Lee on Saturday (Feb 29).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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SINGAPORE - About $3.2 million has been raised so far for a fund that aims to help front-line workers combating the coronavirus outbreak, said Minister for Social and Family Development Desmond Lee on Saturday .

Other groups that the fund will assist are volunteers who contract the virus after stepping forward to help fight it, and Covid-19 patients. There was no one quarantined at the facility during Mr Lee's visit, but it had been at its busiest when two specially arranged flights returned after evacuating 266 Singaporeans and their families from Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak in China, earlier this month.

Meals are provided, but quarantined persons are to collect food at a table outside their rooms, where they have been confined.

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