COVID: 'We were neither in cahoots nor naive' about KTV joints - Shanmugam

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SINGAPORE — It would have been wrong to treat all KTV operators who wanted to pivot to food & beverage activities as "crooks", said Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam in Parliament on Monday .

More than 400 such businesses converted to F&B, and more than 100 operators exited the industry. "We were prepared to let them try. We know there were some who had a dodgy reputation. Should we have said, no you cannot convert to F&B?" Earlier this month, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong, who co-chairs the multi-ministry taskforce on COVID-19, told reporters thatOn Monday, Shanmugam revealed that from Oct 2020 to 10 Jul 2021, police conducted 202 operations against pivoted outlets, as well as other outlets which were operating illegally. This translates to one police operation a day, on average.

 

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