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PAP advises MPs to suspend physical meet-the-people sessions amid rise in unlinked COVID-19 community cases
Tampines GRC MP Baey Yam Keng at a meet-the-people session from an online post dated October 2020. (Photo: Baey Yam Keng/Facebook)
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SINGAPORE: In light of the recent rise in the number of unlinked COVID-19 cases in the community, the People s Action Party (PAP) has advised its branches to hold meet-the-people sessions (MPS) virtually or by phone. This is to minimise exposure of residents and volunteers, the party said in a news release on Sunday (May 2).
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SINGAPORE - Ground-up efforts by Singaporeans in the past year - cooking meals for the needy and translating vital Covid-19 updates for others, and more - exemplified Total Defence efforts that will help Singapore overcome and emerge stronger from the pandemic, said Senior Minister of State for Defence Zaqy Mohamad on Monday (Feb 15).
Speaking at the Total Defence Day 2021 commemoration event at the Singapore Discovery Centre, Mr Zaqy highlighted the importance of Singapore s national defence framework of Total Defence.
He said everyone in the country has played a part in containing the outbreak of the virus here and helping others.
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Total Defence was commemorated more as a concept and exhortation when the going was good and smooth for many years, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said yesterday in a video message that was broadcast on Facebook ahead of Total Defence Day today.
But the Covid-19 pandemic has reaffirmed it as a living concept , vital and necessary to the country s collective well-being, and central to its ability to overcome grave challenges.
In his annual Total Defence Day message, Dr Ng said the concept - when put into action during the pandemic last year - saved lives and jobs.