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 1.  7:20ST LIVE: Singapore returns to phase 2 (heightened alert) from July 22
     
     Covid-19 measures will be tightened again from Thursday (July 22) to Aug
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     campus on July 19, allegedly by a 16-year-old Secondary 4 student.

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     death
     
     Police have arrested a 16-year-old Secondary 4 student of River Valley High
     School for suspected murder and seized an axe as evidence. A 13-year-old
     Secondary 1 student of the school was found with multiple wounds in a
     school toilet.

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     27-year-old was in Oman for the Olympic RS:X qualifiers when she slipped
     after the final training session, and suffered a Grade 2 medial collateral
     ligament tear in her left knee.

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     13, an astonishing record which no current female table tennis player has
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     seven new attractions with his two daughters aged eight and two after
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     in the epee event at the Olympics. Given her track record of punching above
     her weight, it would be foolish to write her off.

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     cases. It continues to grow at an alarming rate, and ministers stressed
     that this is largely due to illegal activity.

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     dining-in at food and beverage outlets to two persons, down from five
     persons currently.

 12. 2:54Fast & easy testing for staff in higher-risk settings
     
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     immunisation status. The Big Story goes to bar Jigger & Pony to how easy
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     cluster, bringing the total number of cases to 87. Professor Teo Yik Ying
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