Effects of circuit breaker in Singapore linger a year on, sombre period hard to forget | Singapore
Thursday, 08 Apr 2021 07:32 AM MYT Cobbler Yeong Miow Hor, 81, a street vendor who operates in Marine Parade housing estate. — TODAY pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. SINGAPORE, April 8 — This day last year, when Singapore came under partial lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, or what the Government termed “circuit breaker”, 63-year-old Sim Chin Chye suddenly had to grapple with something he was not prepared for: Loneliness. The divorcee who is a taxi driver of 25 years and lives alone in a rented flat in Tampines felt it most ac...