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SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) will start piloting an increase in the limit of worshippers for congregational and worship services - from 50 people to 100 people - on 12 religious organisations from Friday (Aug 7). The move is part of the gradual resumption of religious activities in Phase 2 of Singapore's circuit breaker reopening, said MCCY in a news release on Monday. These 12 religious organisations will be allowed to accommodate up to 100 people at any one time for congregational and other worship services, with necessary precautions in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. READ: COVID-19 restrictions to further ease for weddings, funerals from Aug 4; more people allowed to attend "The pilot sites reflect the diversity of religious practices and worship settings in Singapore," said the ministry, adding that the participating organisations "must have first safely conducted congregational and other worship services for up to 50 persons … [Read more...] about COVID-19: 12 religious organisations will be allowed to hold services of up to 100 people as part of pilot

Yvonne Paine’s father was a farmer and a force of life, invariably bouncing back from illness throughout his 90 years. Until he contracted Covid-19 and he slipped away, like so many others, without even the chance of a proper farewell. There was no funeral this time. My mother had been laid to rest in an unusually warm September in Ireland. I squinted at crowds who couldn’t fit inside the church, spilling out over the avenue and blotting out large doors. My mother loved the sun, used to bathe it in. The singing was deafening. That was 10 years ago. READ MORE: Good grief: how can we make it easier to talk about death? Covid-19: Govt criticised for cutting support payments to Kiwis stranded overseas 'Extremely emotional' Trev Ponting is reunited with his family in New Zealand My father was buried this month. I woke up to thick snowflakes falling on a dark morning. My older son ran outside in his pyjamas; his first snowfall. The sun broke through later to deliver a … [Read more...] about ‘We didn’t get to say goodbye’: My dad’s death from Covid-19

♦ No record of visitors’ denied entry ♦ Guards don’t wear masks ♦ Aarogya Setu check skipped At least 3 popular malls , no visitor with a high temperature has ever been turned away; management and guards have different ideas about temperature cutoffs It’s been nearly four months since malls reopened with promises of maintaining all safety measures, but Mirror has found that the assurances ring hollow at many of them. From security personnel unwilling to wear masks to defunct thermal scanners, quite a few malls acknowledged that they don’t even keep a record of visitors with high temperatures. Untitled Carousel COVID-19: Maharashtra reports 5,753 fresh cases, Mumbai registers 19 new deaths Maharashtra continues to remain in the 5,000 range when it comes to its daily count of COVID-19 cases. The state reported 5,753 fresh cases on Sunday, taking the total tally of cases to 17,80,208. Some guards even gave the Aarogya Setu check a miss, and … [Read more...] about With a weekend test drive, Mirror expose…Malls’ Holes