Coronavirus: Singaporeans have stepped up to the challenge, says Halimah Yacob

President Halimah Yacob spoke to union leaders from the National Trades Union Congress via video conference yesterday as part of her ongoing community engagement efforts.

It is not easy to get our students from the Institute of Technical Education, for instance, to go and work in the factories. Perhaps we should take a fresh look at this.Of course, they all hope the wage subsidies can go on for as long as possible. I will leave it to the Government to decide how long we can sustain the 75 per cent wage subsidy under the Jobs Support Scheme .

The question is, what can be done to help workers who are retrenched, channel them to the sectors where they are needed, and to retrain and reskill them?There will be a significantly larger number of workers working from home, and that is not a bad thing. In the past, we tried doing this, but it was not successful. Now, it seems to be working.

Our people have been hit with rules on social distancing, and during the circuit breaker period, we had to completely change the way we work and live.We are a very urban society, used to moving about all the time, so given these restrictions that have been imposed, our people have been very resilient.

Awesome job. Get ready for the 2nd wave.

Only 21 deaths and may not solely be of C19. Is it worth to be so paranoid and needing to destroy the economy?

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