Correspondent in Seoul
Last outdoor "chicken rice", this Sunday in Singapore. As of Tuesday, the “Hawker centers”, these popular restaurants where diners have lunch on tables in the moist heat, after having filled their plates with multiple stalls serving smoking delicacies from all over Asia, will only deliver to home. The closure of these pillars of Singaporean social life symbolizes the drastic turn decided on Friday by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the face of the persistent progression of the Covid-19. "We decided that, rather than tightening the screw gradually over the next few weeks, we had to make a decisive change now to prevent an escalation of infections, " said the leader in a solemn TV address.
The son of visionary Lee Kwan Yew resolved to impose a strict confinement of one month on the 5.6 million inhabitants of the financial hub of Southeast Asia, after having resisted
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