PM Lee: Govt will do whatever it takes to help Singaporeans through outbreak | Mar 27, 2020

While the economic challenge caused by the coronavirus outbreak is very grave, the Government will do "whatever it takes" to stabilise the economy, preserve jobs and help companies stay afloat, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Friday (March 27).

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"Whatever it takes to do that, we will do them," Mr Lee told reporters as he spoke on the $48.4 billion Supplementary Budget that Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat unveiled on Thursday. "We want to see people through this; we are under no illusions that this is the end of the story because nobody can tell what lies ahead," Mr Lee said in an interview at the Istana.

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