Coronavirus: Singapore case spike tests reopening resolve as city state to ‘swap’ 500,000 vaccine doses with Australia


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Singapore ’s count of daily coronavirus cases remained above 100 for the seventh consecutive day amid a surge in clusters at bus depots, testing its resolve to use one of the world’s best vaccination rates to continue reopening the economy. The city state reported 147 new cases of locally transmitted Covid-19 infections on Monday, according to data released by the Health Ministry. That level, about 26 cases per million people, is high for Singapore though well below levels seen in neighbours such as Malaysia and Thailand . Adding to the rise in recent days are Covid-19 clusters that have been...