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Singapore to ban on all short-term visitors in coronavirus crisis

City-state will limit entry to work pass holders providing essential services

Commuters take the Woodlands Causeway to Singapore from Johor a day before Malaysia imposes a lockdown on travel due to the coronavirus outbreak in Singapore on March 17. The city-state reported its first fatalities from the virus on Saturday.   © Reuters

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- Singapore will not allow any short-term visitors to transit or enter the city-state in its latest measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus and to conserve its resources for citizens who are returning from other countries.

The new measures announced on Sunday come a day after the city-state reported its first fatalities and it confirmed 47 new cases, taking its tally to 432.

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