SINGAPORE — Singapore called in India’s envoy Wednesday to protest “unfounded” claims by New Delhi’s chief minister that a coronavirus strain from the city-state was dangerous for children.
India is suffering one of the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks while tiny Singapore has been praised for keeping the disease in check with relatively few infections.
But following a slight uptick in Singapore, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted a warning about a “new coronavirus strain” from the city-state that is “extremely dangerous for children”, and urged the government to impose a flight ban.
Singapore’s foreign ministry said it had expressed con…
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