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SINGAPORE – Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will address the nation at 5 p.m. on Monday (December 14) to give an update on the Covid-19 situation and the outlook for next year.
The co-chairs of the ministerial working group tackling the pandemic, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong and Education Minister Lawrence Wong, will hold a press conference immediately after, he said in a Facebook post.
“It has been some time since my last address on Covid-19,” Lee wrote. “But please stay calm, you don’t need to stock up on anything!”
Throughout this year, Prime Minister Lee has made several major speeches outlining Singapore’s plan to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.
In his first such speech on February 8, he urged Singaporeans to stand their ground against what was then a new and relatively unknown virus.
Just over a month later, he warned that stricter measures might be necessary, as it appeared that the pandemic would continue for some time.
This was followed by his announcement of the circuit breaker on April 3. All schools and most workplaces were closed, with social interactions and movement outside the home severely limited in an effort to stop the spread of the virus.
Mr. Lee added a special appeal to the elderly several days later, urging them to stay home for their own safety.
On April 21, the Prime Minister announced that the circuit breaker would be widened as the total number of cases continued to rise, especially in migrant worker dormitories.
Mr. Lee, along with Chief Ministers Teo Chee Hean and Tharman Shanmugaratnam, as well as Vice Premier Heng Swee Keat, Minister of Commerce and Industry Chan Chun Sing and Minister of Education Lawrence Wong, also held a series of national broadcasts. on the future Singapore Covid-19 post.
In June, he also explained why he had decided to call a general election on July 10, despite the pandemic.
Watch PM Lee’s speech live on The Straits Times website.
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