The Big Story: Reducing community cases is a huge success, but S’pore is not yet at the peak Covid-19: expert, Multimedia News & Top Stories



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SINGAPORE – Catch up on the hottest topics on The Straits Times talk show.

The Big Story, broadcast every day of the week at 5.30 p.m. On Facebook and YouTube, he has top-level reporters and editors discussing the day’s main stories, in the heart of the newsroom.

The show is directed by multimedia correspondent Hairianto Diman and assistant video editor Olivia Quay, and is streamed live from ST’s digital studio.

In Wednesday’s (May 13) episode, Associate Professor Alex Cook of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health discusses the declining number of new infections in the local community and assess why you doubt that Singapore has reached its peak.

It also looks to June 1, when the switch measurements are scheduled to decrease.

Then we spoke to businesswoman Asema Ahmed about the charity campaign she and her husband, venture capitalist Ozi Amanat, had launched to donate 1,000 meals to foreign quarantined workers.

Stories covered in previous episodes of The Big Story include the resurgence of Covid-19 in South Korea, and some companies that were allowed to reopen after easing stringent circuit breaker measures.



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