Coronavirus has dimmed the outlook of Singapore's jobs market, says minister

last year — but replicating that performance has become harder now with the coronavirus outbreak, the country's manpower minister said on Thursday.

"Even in 2019, we were looking at a more uncertain outlook and as it turns out, 2019's employment growth was very strong," Josephine Teo, Singapore's minister for manpower, told CNBC's"But coming into 2020, especially with the COVID-19 outbreak, I think everyone is not so sure whether we can sustain the momentum. I think it's best not to expect that it will be so," added Teo, who's also Singapore's second minister for home affairs.

But China, in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus, has taken drastic measures such as shutting down cities and businesses, as well as restricting travel — threatening the revenue stream of many economies including Singapore.set aside 5.6 billion Singapore dollars

We all stopped going places where there were viruses, we would never even have waded into the sea, lots are there too

Define 'dimmed'

Am not surprised, that is always the outcome of every deadly epidemic viruses, so it's no big deal!

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