Day 1 of Covid-19 'circuit breaker' measures, and Singapore is a stiller city

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Buses and trains run quite empty, while malls and the business district lie much quieter, notes ST's Rohit Brijnath.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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In the distance, a herd of steel cranes stand quiet and stationary. In a relentlessly industrious city, it is a peculiar sight. A few kilometres farther down the expressway, a swarm of planes huddle like a line of stranded birds. It's Tuesday afternoon, day one of the circuit-breaker, and Singapore is a stiller city.

Outside the station, workers are trimming leaves. Even during such a time, Singapore is neat. On the mostly empty train, it appears like we're travelling to a bandits' reunion, for we're all colourfully masked. Well, not all. Some fear nothing and wear nothing. Some have work to do, to feed us and also themselves. Cleaner Chua Hin Seng, 81, stops swabbing the pavement briefly to have a chat. This is his living. GrabFood delivery men blow smoke at the sky as they wait for lunches we have ordered.

Ion Orchard feels like a tomb, Takashimaya like an abandoned cathedral of commerce. Outside, a runner does laps, an elderly tourist from India takes a walk and Ms Helen Foo, 70, waits for customers at the 7-Eleven. Inside, I peek into Kinokuniya and in the gloom I see a person on a ladder peering at books. Locked in? What bliss.

He drops the photographer and me at Terminal 1 and if the airport is a setting of great emotion, replete with unions and separations, then now it is sombre. Where is there to go to escape this?

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Meanwhile at the park tho.. crowded clusters, no masks, hard breathing of airborne particles at each others.

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