Flexibility allowed in workplace as 'very hard' for employees to wear mask all day: Lawrence Wong

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SINGAPORE - Employees at workstations will be allowed to remove masks because it will be difficult to be masked up constantly while back at the workplace, said Finance Minister Lawrence Wong on Friday

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"And if you take off your mask when you're working, ensure that you're maintaining a safe distance from your colleagues and, obviously, do not gather together in a crowded setting."announced a major easing of Singapore's remaining Covid-19 safety measures from next Tuesday, The first is when they are not physically interacting with one another, and the second is when they are not in any customer-facing areas, where interaction is likely to happen.

Second, the country has raised its collective resilience, given how there are"quite a number" of people who have been infected with Covid-19. But the country must not become complacent, given how new variants can emerge from time to time, and that there are ongoing waves in different parts of the world.

 

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