Bloomberg Singapore said it will bar all short-term visitors and limit foreign workers from entering to reduce the risk of imported cases of the coronavirus. The government will allow the entry or return of work-permit holders to those providing essential services in sectors such as health-care and transport, National Development Minister Lawrence Wong, who co-chairs a ministerial task force to ...

Bloomberg India cancelled passenger trains and various states asked non-essential services to shut, as the world’s second-most populous country heads toward a complete lockdown to prevent the coronavirus from spreading locally. All except a bare minimum rail services will stop operating through March 31, the Ministry of Railways said in a statement on Sunday, hours into a self-imposed curfew called ...

Bloomberg About a week into the month-long lockdown of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon, businessmen are calling for a 281 billion peso ($5.52 billion) fiscal stimulus to soften the economic blow of the spreading coronavirus outbreak that has displaced millions of workers. More than 700 factories and 400 economic zones have been shut, while doctors are warning of a ...