{"id":49958,"date":"2026-05-05T14:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49958"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:44:37","slug":"bedok-food-centre-safe-for-diners-amid-tb-cases-says-ong-ye-kung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49958","title":{"rendered":"Bedok food centre safe for diners amid TB cases, says Ong Ye Kung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mr Augustine Kuah, 37, who co-owns a curry puff stall, said customer numbers had dropped sharply almost overnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been quite bad since the announcement (of the clusters). Fewer and fewer people are coming because they are afraid,\u201d he said, estimating a fall of up to 70 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that regular patrons have either cut back on visits or stopped coming altogether, despite reassurances from authorities that the risk of transmission from casual contact is low.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kuah said he planned to close on Wednesday and Thursday. \u201cIt doesn&#8217;t make sense to open a store when there\u2019s really not much of a crowd around here. We prepare the food but cannot sell it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Other hawkers CNA spoke to reported a similar drop of between 50 and 70 per cent in business since the news broke.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Senior Minister of State for Health Tan Kiat How said affected hawkers will get half a month&#8217;s rental and other charges waived this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/tuberculosis-bedok-central-hawker-centre-safe-business-6100101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Augustine Kuah, 37, who co-owns a curry puff stall, said customer numbers had dropped sharply almost overnight. \u201cIt\u2019s been quite bad since the announcement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--L0SNp7IS--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/05\/05\/lzx_9664.jpg?itok=qKs5rzpe","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3089,1078,1021,3809,108,4783,1086],"class_list":["post-49958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-bedok","tag-cases","tag-centre","tag-diners","tag-food","tag-kung","tag-safe","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}