Singapore — Singapore has had its first fatality due to complications from Covid-19 in nearly two months at the weekend, amid a flare-up of cases in a country that’s been one of the world’s most successful in containing the virus.

An 88-year-old Singaporean woman with a history of cancer and cardiac failure died on Saturday after she was treated in a ward at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where a cluster of 27 cases has been identified since last week...

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