By Rae Wee
A DAY after the "circuit breaker" was announced in April last year, Selvarani Chidambaram received a phone call from her husband just after four in the morning. On the other end of the line, Ms Selvarani's husband was panicking.
"All the workers cannot come, I don't know what to do. How are we going to deliver the papers?" he said.
The husband-and-wife duo have been newspaper vendors for 20 years now. Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak, they employed 17 people who delivered papers to some 2,000 places in the West -- across areas such as Tuas and Jurong West.
But on that day, these 17 were unable to report for work. Some were migrant workers unable to leave their dormitories. Others were senior citizens who had been advised against going out.
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