SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Singapore Airlines (SIA) is rerouting its Europe-bound flights to avoid Belarusian airspace.
The move comes after the Belarusian authorities forced a commercial flight heading for Lithuania to land in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, on Sunday (May 23).
A key opposition journalist, Roman Protasevich, who was aboard the flight was arrested after the Ryanair plane landed in the capital.
On Tuesday, SIA said: The safety of our customers and crew is our top priority. We are currently rerouting our flights that are bound for Europe to avoid the Belarusian airspace, and we will continue to closely monitor the situation.
Recently, the approach was used in Tan Tock Seng Hospital with some success. - ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Ring-fencing strategies that aim to limit Covid-19 transmissions and contain their spread have been intensified recently, helping Singapore stave off a second circuit breaker for now.
Experts note that larger areas are now being closed off and more people made to undergo swab testing.
Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the National University of Singapore s (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, said that ring-fencing can help to flatten the curve of infections by preventing transmissions from spilling over to other sectors.
India has banned all international commercial flights to and from Singapore since March last year. - ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The family that is suspected to have seeded the Covid-19 cluster at Changi Airport Terminal 3 did not arrive on a flight from India.
This is because India has banned all international commercial services to and from Singapore since March last year.
The only passenger flights now operating between the two countries are Vande Bharat (repatriation) flights that operate out of Terminal 1, said Singapore’s transport, foreign affairs and manpower ministries in a joint statement in response to media queries on Sunday (May 23).
Both Kong Hwa School (left) and Singapore Polytechnic each have four students who tested positive for Covid-19. - ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A total of 37 students from 25 schools have been infected with Covid-19 this month, including six new cases reported on Thursday (May 20).
This includes 15 cases linked to a cluster at the Learning Point tuition centre and another 11 to one at Changi Airport Terminal 3.
The affected schools range from pre-schools to primary and secondary schools, a madrasah, junior college and several institutes of higher learning.
The Learning Point cluster emerged after a 50-year-old Singaporean woman who teaches at its Parkway Centre branch tested positive for the virus on May 12. The cluster now has 28 cases.
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A hacker claimed he had access to data on Indonesia s entire population of more than 270 million people. - AFP
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): Indonesia s Communication and Information Ministry has confirmed a leak of social security data but insisted the breach was much smaller in scale than claimed by the hacker.
Last week, a user with the handle Kotz posted on an online forum frequented by hackers samples of data, such as names, citizenship identity numbers, residential addresses and phone numbers of one million Indonesian citizens.
Kotz claimed it had access to data on the entire population of more than 270 million people.