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END BAD LEADERSHIP: A LETTER FROM THE GRAVE

END BAD LEADERSHIP: A LETTER FROM THE GRAVE

CONSIDER THE CONTENTS OF THIS LETTER AND THINK WISELY.


*A LETTER FROM THE GRAVE*


A MUST READ !


_The story of LEE KUAN YEW (Ex Prime Minister of Singapore for 31 years)


His OPEN LETTER TO MALAYSIAN LEADERS_


Dear *Malaysian* leaders, I want to appreciate your condolence messages to Singaporeans since my death on Sunday, March 22. Having died at the age of *91,* I would not say I died young.


In fact, life expectancy in Singapore, which I led as prime minister for 31 years, is 80 years for men and 85 for women. You may even say I spent an overtime of 11 years. I would say I lived a good life which I devoted to the progress of my country.


I can confidently say that everything I did — including that for which I was heavily criticised for being *“highhanded”* — was for the benefit of my people, not for my personal gain. I died a fulfilled man with no regrets whatsoever.


May I briefly tell you the story of Singapore so that you can understand why it is often told with admiration all over the world. We were a small, hopeless Island.


We thought we were so poor it was impossible to survive on our own. We decided to go into a union with other countries to form Malaysia in 1963.


But because of ethnic riots, we were expelled from the union in 1965, and I broke down in tears because I did not see how we were going to survive as a country. It was so bad we had no potable water. We relied on other countries for water to drink!


LEE KUAN YEW

We had no natural resources. No oil, no gold, no solid minerals, nothing. All we had were human beings — and ports.


Dear *Malaysian* leaders, we did not give up. We decided to pick the pieces of our lives. We resolved to turn our fortune around.


Today, our story has changed completely. So you know, we are no longer a *Third World country.*


We are one of the *four Asian Tigers* — so-called because of our incredible development story.


*Singapore is the only Asian country with the top AAA rating by all credit rating agencies. We are the fourth largest financial centre in the world. We have one of the five busiest ports in the world.*


Manufacturing accounts for around 30% of our GDP. And Singapore has the third highest per capita income in the world.


Permit me some more immodesty. Unlike Malaysia, we don’t have a single drop of crude oil on our land.


But also unlike Malaysia, we are one of the biggest exporters, not importers, of petroleum products.


Our country is in the top three of oil-refining centres in the world, yet we don’t have oil! We have some of the biggest refineries in the world.


Meanwhile, Malaysia, with all the oil you produce, has been importing petrol, diesel, kerosene, engine oil and other petroleum products for decades!


Let me shock you: *we are the largest oil-rig producers in the world! The World Bank ranks us as the easiest place to do business in the world. I’m blushing, even in death!*


Let me explain how we attained these feats. We are no magicians. We are no angels.


We are human beings like you, dear Malaysian leaders.


The first thing we recognised is that *quality leadership is non-negotiable!*


I understand that ordinary Malaysians get all the blame for Malaysia’s problems under the pretext that if the followers are bad, then leaders will be bad. 


I disagree.


*{THE LANGUAGE OF MAD MALAYSIAN - IMBECILE}*


If the leaders are good, the followers will be good.


The leaders take the critical decisions and show direction. *That is why they are called leaders.*


It is the dog that should be wagging the tail, not the tail wagging the dog.


Don’t blame passengers for bad driving. Countries are transformed by good leadership.


Why does a country need competent and exemplary leaders? Development starts from visioning.


No country develops by accident or co-incidence. Development is planned.


The leader, who must understand the critical issues, puts together a team, shares his vision with them, assigns them responsibilities and leads them from the front.


That is where it starts. It is when you have a vision of society that you will know that *education is key, electricity is key, health is key, infrastructure is non-negotiable.* It is when you have this vision that you know where to direct your energy and resources. You know the kind of people to put in charge of key ministries and agencies.


Furthermore, leaders must *not be obsessed with instant gratification and personal comfort.* That is one of the biggest problems you, Malaysian leaders, have.


*_You are too obsessed with the perks of office that you have forgotten why you were elected in the first instance._*


I understand that aside the presidential jets in town, you are more comfortable with chartered jets. What a waste. I will share a story with you, which you can read in my book, *From Third World to First.*


The story is on *pages 363-364* and it had to do my trip to Ottawa, Canada, for the Commonwealth meeting in 1973.


The Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, arrived in style in his own aircraft.


When I landed, I saw a parked Boeing 707 with “Bangladesh” emblazoned on it. When I left, it was still standing on the same spot, idle for eight days, getting obsolescent without earning anything.


As I left the hotel for the airport, two huge vans were being loaded with packages for the Bangladeshi aircraft. At the conference, Mujibur Rahman had made a pitch for aid to his country.


Any public relations firm would have advised him not to leave his special aircraft standing for eight whole days on the parking apron. You want aid but you are showing opulence to the world.


Presidents of Kenya and Nigeria also arrived in jets. I wondered why they did not set out to impress the world that they were poor and in dire need of assistance.


Our permanent representative at the UN explained that the poorer the country, the bigger the Cadillacs they hired for their leaders.


So I made a virtue of arriving by ordinary commercial aircraft and thus helped preserve Singapore’s Third World status for many years.


However, by the mid-1990s, the World Bank refused to heed our pleas not to reclassify us as a *“High Income Developing Country”* — giving no Brownie points for my frugal travel habits. We lost all the concessions that were given to developing countries.


_*Dear Malaysian leaders, I understand that you are very, very religious.*_


*_The Muslims among you pray five times day, go for hajj so often, fast during Ramadan and mention the name of Allah as punctuation for every word and every sentence. The Christians among you are always speaking in tongues or eating communion, paying fat tithes and heavy offerings and holding prayer sessions at home every morning._*


*_Yet, I am told you loot your state treasury without compassion or compunction, inflate contracts recklessly, operate killer squads, and watch — without conscience — as your citizens struggle without clean water and good hospitals._*


Unfortunately, I died an agnostic. I neither denied nor accepted that there was a God.


Though two of my younger brothers, Freddy Lee and Lee Suan Yew, are members of the Anglican and Methodist churches respectively, I was not a churchgoer. Don’t misunderstand me: I am not saying you should not believe in God.


But I only wonder: how can you say you believe in God and fail so woefully in what the Holy Bible and Holy Qu’ran teach about loving your neighbour, caring for the needy and showing responsibility as a leader? I cannot understand it.


You guys never cease to amaze with how you can conveniently combine religion with greed.


On a final note, I appreciate that you are mourning my death and describing me as great. Thank you very much.


But I want you to know that you too can become great by putting the welfare of your citizens above your personal comfort.


MALAYSIA too can produce a *Lee Kuan Yew.* I go to my grave a happy man. Ask yourself: will you go to yours fulfilled? *Adieu!*



*End Bad Leadership*_

Pls, forward to as many friends as possible. Hoping that it will get to the right places.

*Copied*

CONSIDER THE CONTENTS OF THIS LETTER AND THINK WISELY.


*A LETTER FROM THE GRAVE*


A MUST READ !


_The story of LEE KUAN YEW (Ex Prime Minister of Singapore for 31 years)


His OPEN LETTER TO MALAYSIAN LEADERS_


Dear *Malaysian* leaders, I want to appreciate your condolence messages to Singaporeans since my death on Sunday, March 22. Having died at the age of *91,* I would not say I died young.


In fact, life expectancy in Singapore, which I led as prime minister for 31 years, is 80 years for men and 85 for women. You may even say I spent an overtime of 11 years. I would say I lived a good life which I devoted to the progress of my country.


I can confidently say that everything I did — including that for which I was heavily criticised for being *“highhanded”* — was for the benefit of my people, not for my personal gain. I died a fulfilled man with no regrets whatsoever.


May I briefly tell you the story of Singapore so that you can understand why it is often told with admiration all over the world. We were a small, hopeless Island.


We thought we were so poor it was impossible to survive on our own. We decided to go into a union with other countries to form Malaysia in 1963.


But because of ethnic riots, we were expelled from the union in 1965, and I broke down in tears because I did not see how we were going to survive as a country. It was so bad we had no potable water. We relied on other countries for water to drink!


LEE KUAN YEW

We had no natural resources. No oil, no gold, no solid minerals, nothing. All we had were human beings — and ports.


Dear *Malaysian* leaders, we did not give up. We decided to pick the pieces of our lives. We resolved to turn our fortune around.


Today, our story has changed completely. So you know, we are no longer a *Third World country.*


We are one of the *four Asian Tigers* — so-called because of our incredible development story.


*Singapore is the only Asian country with the top AAA rating by all credit rating agencies. We are the fourth largest financial centre in the world. We have one of the five busiest ports in the world.*


Manufacturing accounts for around 30% of our GDP. And Singapore has the third highest per capita income in the world.


Permit me some more immodesty. Unlike Malaysia, we don’t have a single drop of crude oil on our land.


But also unlike Malaysia, we are one of the biggest exporters, not importers, of petroleum products.


Our country is in the top three of oil-refining centres in the world, yet we don’t have oil! We have some of the biggest refineries in the world.


Meanwhile, Malaysia, with all the oil you produce, has been importing petrol, diesel, kerosene, engine oil and other petroleum products for decades!


Let me shock you: *we are the largest oil-rig producers in the world! The World Bank ranks us as the easiest place to do business in the world. I’m blushing, even in death!*


Let me explain how we attained these feats. We are no magicians. We are no angels.


We are human beings like you, dear Malaysian leaders.


The first thing we recognised is that *quality leadership is non-negotiable!*


I understand that ordinary Malaysians get all the blame for Malaysia’s problems under the pretext that if the followers are bad, then leaders will be bad. 


I disagree.


*{THE LANGUAGE OF MAD MALAYSIAN - IMBECILE}*


If the leaders are good, the followers will be good.


The leaders take the critical decisions and show direction. *That is why they are called leaders.*


It is the dog that should be wagging the tail, not the tail wagging the dog.


Don’t blame passengers for bad driving. Countries are transformed by good leadership.


Why does a country need competent and exemplary leaders? Development starts from visioning.


No country develops by accident or co-incidence. Development is planned.


The leader, who must understand the critical issues, puts together a team, shares his vision with them, assigns them responsibilities and leads them from the front.


That is where it starts. It is when you have a vision of society that you will know that *education is key, electricity is key, health is key, infrastructure is non-negotiable.* It is when you have this vision that you know where to direct your energy and resources. You know the kind of people to put in charge of key ministries and agencies.


Furthermore, leaders must *not be obsessed with instant gratification and personal comfort.* That is one of the biggest problems you, Malaysian leaders, have.


*_You are too obsessed with the perks of office that you have forgotten why you were elected in the first instance._*


I understand that aside the presidential jets in town, you are more comfortable with chartered jets. What a waste. I will share a story with you, which you can read in my book, *From Third World to First.*


The story is on *pages 363-364* and it had to do my trip to Ottawa, Canada, for the Commonwealth meeting in 1973.


The Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, arrived in style in his own aircraft.


When I landed, I saw a parked Boeing 707 with “Bangladesh” emblazoned on it. When I left, it was still standing on the same spot, idle for eight days, getting obsolescent without earning anything.


As I left the hotel for the airport, two huge vans were being loaded with packages for the Bangladeshi aircraft. At the conference, Mujibur Rahman had made a pitch for aid to his country.


Any public relations firm would have advised him not to leave his special aircraft standing for eight whole days on the parking apron. You want aid but you are showing opulence to the world.


Presidents of Kenya and Nigeria also arrived in jets. I wondered why they did not set out to impress the world that they were poor and in dire need of assistance.


Our permanent representative at the UN explained that the poorer the country, the bigger the Cadillacs they hired for their leaders.


So I made a virtue of arriving by ordinary commercial aircraft and thus helped preserve Singapore’s Third World status for many years.


However, by the mid-1990s, the World Bank refused to heed our pleas not to reclassify us as a *“High Income Developing Country”* — giving no Brownie points for my frugal travel habits. We lost all the concessions that were given to developing countries.


_*Dear Malaysian leaders, I understand that you are very, very religious.*_


*_The Muslims among you pray five times day, go for hajj so often, fast during Ramadan and mention the name of Allah as punctuation for every word and every sentence. The Christians among you are always speaking in tongues or eating communion, paying fat tithes and heavy offerings and holding prayer sessions at home every morning._*


*_Yet, I am told you loot your state treasury without compassion or compunction, inflate contracts recklessly, operate killer squads, and watch — without conscience — as your citizens struggle without clean water and good hospitals._*


Unfortunately, I died an agnostic. I neither denied nor accepted that there was a God.


Though two of my younger brothers, Freddy Lee and Lee Suan Yew, are members of the Anglican and Methodist churches respectively, I was not a churchgoer. Don’t misunderstand me: I am not saying you should not believe in God.


But I only wonder: how can you say you believe in God and fail so woefully in what the Holy Bible and Holy Qu’ran teach about loving your neighbour, caring for the needy and showing responsibility as a leader? I cannot understand it.


You guys never cease to amaze with how you can conveniently combine religion with greed.


On a final note, I appreciate that you are mourning my death and describing me as great. Thank you very much.


But I want you to know that you too can become great by putting the welfare of your citizens above your personal comfort.


MALAYSIA too can produce a *Lee Kuan Yew.* I go to my grave a happy man. Ask yourself: will you go to yours fulfilled? *Adieu!*



*End Bad Leadership*_

Pls, forward to as many friends as possible. Hoping that it will get to the right places.

*Copied*

How Coronavirus clips wings of Asia's biggest air show

How Coronavirus clips wings of Asia's biggest air show

Asia's biggest air show opened in Singapore Tuesday under the shadow of a deadly coronavirus outbreak that has forced companies to withdraw, kept visitors away and is battering the aviation industry.

The biennial Singapore Airshow attracts hundreds of global aerospace firms and airlines to the financial hub, where they negotiate multi-million-dollar deals and watch spectacular aerial displays by fighter jets.

But the virus -- which has killed more than 1,000 in China and spread to more than two dozen other countries -- is overshadowing this year's event.

Singapore has so far reported 45 cases, and the city-state last week raised its health alert level to the same as during the deadly 2002-2003 SARS outbreak.

Over 70 exhibitors decided to skip the air show and withdrawals include US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, which makes warplanes and defence equipment, Canada's Bombardier and plane maker De Havilland.

At least 10 Chinese companies have also pulled out after Singapore imposed a ban on people travelling from China in a bid to stem the spread of the virus.

Organisers decided to push ahead but with precautions in place, such as limiting public tickets, screening participants with thermal scanners to detect fevers and asking them to greet one another by waving from a distance or bowing, instead of shaking hands.

The enormous exhibition centre hosting the show, filled with a dizzying array of equipment from mock-ups of plane interiors to tanks and machine guns, looked emptier than at previous editions and few major deals are expected this year.

- 'Worse than SARS' -

Some 930 exhibiting companies are attending and around 40,000 trade attendees from more than 45 countries are expected during the four-day event, down from the previous edition of the show in 2018 when over 54,000 trade participants and more than 1,000 companies took part.

Nevertheless, major players, such as Boeing -- seeking to recover from a crisis sparked by fatal crashes involving its 737 MAX model –- and Airbus, were still in attendance and some deals were signed.

They included one by Franco-Italian plane maker ATR, which announced Papua New Guinea airline PNG Air would be a new plane's launch customer with an order for three.

Despite Chinese exhibitors pulling out, China's air force sent an aerobatics team to take part in the aerial displays that are a highlight of the show.

The Chinese fighter jets put on their display just ahead of US warplanes, a rare instance of the rivals' military aircraft in the same airspace.

While Beijing and Washington have long been jostling for influence in Asia, Singapore maintains good ties with both.

The mood is expected to remain subdued in Singapore this week as airlines reel from the impact of many nations barring Chinese travellers over the coronavirus outbreak.

Aviation consultancy Ascend by Cirium said in an analysis this week there was a reduction in flights from and within mainland China by roughly 25 percent, and predicted the impact on the industry could be worse than during the SARS outbreak.

"China is a larger part of the global economy and global airline traffic than in 2003," said Joanna Lu, the group's head of consultancy for Asia.

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak, like the current coronavirus, began in China before spreading to many countries, and killed hundreds.

The International Air Transport Association said it was too early to assess the full damage, but noted that during the SARS outbreak, Asia-Pacific airlines lost an estimated $6 billion in revenues.

The tourism industry as a whole will suffer "a massive negative blow" due to bans on arrivals from China, said Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific chief economist at IHS Markit.

Asia's biggest air show opened in Singapore Tuesday under the shadow of a deadly coronavirus outbreak that has forced companies to withdraw, kept visitors away and is battering the aviation industry.

The biennial Singapore Airshow attracts hundreds of global aerospace firms and airlines to the financial hub, where they negotiate multi-million-dollar deals and watch spectacular aerial displays by fighter jets.

But the virus -- which has killed more than 1,000 in China and spread to more than two dozen other countries -- is overshadowing this year's event.

Singapore has so far reported 45 cases, and the city-state last week raised its health alert level to the same as during the deadly 2002-2003 SARS outbreak.

Over 70 exhibitors decided to skip the air show and withdrawals include US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, which makes warplanes and defence equipment, Canada's Bombardier and plane maker De Havilland.

At least 10 Chinese companies have also pulled out after Singapore imposed a ban on people travelling from China in a bid to stem the spread of the virus.

Organisers decided to push ahead but with precautions in place, such as limiting public tickets, screening participants with thermal scanners to detect fevers and asking them to greet one another by waving from a distance or bowing, instead of shaking hands.

The enormous exhibition centre hosting the show, filled with a dizzying array of equipment from mock-ups of plane interiors to tanks and machine guns, looked emptier than at previous editions and few major deals are expected this year.

- 'Worse than SARS' -

Some 930 exhibiting companies are attending and around 40,000 trade attendees from more than 45 countries are expected during the four-day event, down from the previous edition of the show in 2018 when over 54,000 trade participants and more than 1,000 companies took part.

Nevertheless, major players, such as Boeing -- seeking to recover from a crisis sparked by fatal crashes involving its 737 MAX model –- and Airbus, were still in attendance and some deals were signed.

They included one by Franco-Italian plane maker ATR, which announced Papua New Guinea airline PNG Air would be a new plane's launch customer with an order for three.

Despite Chinese exhibitors pulling out, China's air force sent an aerobatics team to take part in the aerial displays that are a highlight of the show.

The Chinese fighter jets put on their display just ahead of US warplanes, a rare instance of the rivals' military aircraft in the same airspace.

While Beijing and Washington have long been jostling for influence in Asia, Singapore maintains good ties with both.

The mood is expected to remain subdued in Singapore this week as airlines reel from the impact of many nations barring Chinese travellers over the coronavirus outbreak.

Aviation consultancy Ascend by Cirium said in an analysis this week there was a reduction in flights from and within mainland China by roughly 25 percent, and predicted the impact on the industry could be worse than during the SARS outbreak.

"China is a larger part of the global economy and global airline traffic than in 2003," said Joanna Lu, the group's head of consultancy for Asia.

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak, like the current coronavirus, began in China before spreading to many countries, and killed hundreds.

The International Air Transport Association said it was too early to assess the full damage, but noted that during the SARS outbreak, Asia-Pacific airlines lost an estimated $6 billion in revenues.

The tourism industry as a whole will suffer "a massive negative blow" due to bans on arrivals from China, said Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific chief economist at IHS Markit.

Singapore prime minister urges public to remain calm over Coronavirus as the country evacuaed 174 on second flight from Wuhan

Singapore prime minister urges public to remain calm over Coronavirus as the country evacuaed 174 on second flight from Wuhan

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has urged people keep calm over the spread of the coronavirus in the city-state after the decision to raise the alert level for the infection led shoppers to rush to supermarkets and clear the shelves of essential items.

"There is no reason to panic," Lee said in a video that was shared on social media. "We are not locking down the city or confining everybody to stay at home. We have ample supplies. There is no need to stock up with instant noodles, or tinned food or toilet paper."

Singapore, which has reported 33 cases of the virus, raised its alert level on Friday to "orange", the same as during the SARS outbreak in 2003. The alert level indicates that the virus is severe and passes easily between people.

On Sunday, Singapore mounted a second evacuation flight from Wuhan, bringing home 174 Singaporeans and their family members, its foreign ministry said.

The city-state evacuated 92 Singaporeans from Wuhan on January 30, some of whom have since been confirmed as infected.

The returning passengers will undergo medical screening on arrival at Singapore's Changi Airport, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.

Those with fever or respiratory symptoms will be taken to designated hospitals for further examination, while the remaining passengers will be quarantined for 14 days. The flight also took some Chinese nationals back to Wuhan, it added

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has urged people keep calm over the spread of the coronavirus in the city-state after the decision to raise the alert level for the infection led shoppers to rush to supermarkets and clear the shelves of essential items.

"There is no reason to panic," Lee said in a video that was shared on social media. "We are not locking down the city or confining everybody to stay at home. We have ample supplies. There is no need to stock up with instant noodles, or tinned food or toilet paper."

Singapore, which has reported 33 cases of the virus, raised its alert level on Friday to "orange", the same as during the SARS outbreak in 2003. The alert level indicates that the virus is severe and passes easily between people.

On Sunday, Singapore mounted a second evacuation flight from Wuhan, bringing home 174 Singaporeans and their family members, its foreign ministry said.

The city-state evacuated 92 Singaporeans from Wuhan on January 30, some of whom have since been confirmed as infected.

The returning passengers will undergo medical screening on arrival at Singapore's Changi Airport, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.

Those with fever or respiratory symptoms will be taken to designated hospitals for further examination, while the remaining passengers will be quarantined for 14 days. The flight also took some Chinese nationals back to Wuhan, it added

Singapore announces first local coronavirus transmissions

Singapore announces first local coronavirus transmissions

Singapore (AFP) Singapore on Tuesday announced the first local transmissions of the deadly coronavirus from China as a major aviation conference was scrapped due to the escalating health scare.

The Ministry of Health said it had found six additional cases, four of them involving human-to-human transmission in Singapore, bringing the total infections to 24 in the city-state.

"Though four of these cases constitute a local transmission cluster, there is as yet no evidence of widespread sustained community transmission in Singapore,” the ministry said in a statement.


Two of the local transmission cases involved women working at a health products shop primarily serving Chinese tourists.

A third was one of the women’s Indonesian maid.

Another was a female tour guide who had brought groups to the health shop.

In addition to the local transmissions, two cases were among the Singapore residents evacuated from Wuhan on January 30.

Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said that if the local transmissions escalate in the community the government is prepared to consider "measures to reduce human-to-human interaction".

- Aviation convention scrapped -

A major international aviation conference scheduled for the eve of next week's Singapore Airshow has been cancelled, organisers said Tuesday.

Organisers, however, said the main event, Asia's biggest airshow, will proceed as scheduled from February 11 to 16 despite the pullout of several exhibitors, many of them from China.

The aviation industry is one of the most affected by the virus outbreak after governments worldwide imposed restrictions on travel, including bans on arrivals from China.

The death toll in China stood at 425 Tuesday, exceeding the number of fatalities in the country from the outbreak in 2002-03 of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS.

The World Health Organization has declared the crisis a global health emergency.

Source
Singapore (AFP) Singapore on Tuesday announced the first local transmissions of the deadly coronavirus from China as a major aviation conference was scrapped due to the escalating health scare.

The Ministry of Health said it had found six additional cases, four of them involving human-to-human transmission in Singapore, bringing the total infections to 24 in the city-state.

"Though four of these cases constitute a local transmission cluster, there is as yet no evidence of widespread sustained community transmission in Singapore,” the ministry said in a statement.


Two of the local transmission cases involved women working at a health products shop primarily serving Chinese tourists.

A third was one of the women’s Indonesian maid.

Another was a female tour guide who had brought groups to the health shop.

In addition to the local transmissions, two cases were among the Singapore residents evacuated from Wuhan on January 30.

Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said that if the local transmissions escalate in the community the government is prepared to consider "measures to reduce human-to-human interaction".

- Aviation convention scrapped -

A major international aviation conference scheduled for the eve of next week's Singapore Airshow has been cancelled, organisers said Tuesday.

Organisers, however, said the main event, Asia's biggest airshow, will proceed as scheduled from February 11 to 16 despite the pullout of several exhibitors, many of them from China.

The aviation industry is one of the most affected by the virus outbreak after governments worldwide imposed restrictions on travel, including bans on arrivals from China.

The death toll in China stood at 425 Tuesday, exceeding the number of fatalities in the country from the outbreak in 2002-03 of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS.

The World Health Organization has declared the crisis a global health emergency.

Source

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