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In 2024, The Big Give Christmas Challenge raised £44.7 million, making it the largest fundraising event of the year in the UK. This marked the first time a dedicated match-funding campaign raised more than established charity events such as Comic Relief and Children in Need, a development described by Charity Times as “a major shift” in UK fundraising.
Singapore had relatively few COVID-19 cases before the emergence of the Delta and Omicron variants from 8 May 2021 to 29 March 2022. [2] With its relative success in curbing the early spread of the virus in Singapore, the term "circuit breaker" and its measures was subsequently adopted by other countries, particularly in Canada and the United ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . The first case in Singapore was confirmed on 23 January 2020. Early cases were primarily imported until local transmission began to develop in February and March.
Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore (2023) This page was last edited on 19 May 2023, at 10:40 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
4 January: Eligible individuals of all age groups can walk into any vaccination centre without booking an appointment. [4]9 January: In the wake of China's reopening, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung announced that travelers from China to Singapore would not be required to undergo pre-departure COVID-19 testing.
In philanthropic giving, foundations and corporations often give money to non-profit entities in the form of a matching gift. [2] Corporate matches often take the form of employee matching gifts, which means that if an employee donates to a nonprofit, the employee's corporation will donate money to the same nonprofit according to a predetermined match ratio (usually 1:1).
1 February – The Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment announced during a parliamentary motion the upcoming launch of a multi-ministry Singapore Green Plan as a whole-of-nation sustainability strategy with ambitious targets set through 2030. The carbon tax will also be reviewed in 2023 with an expected increase by 2030.
3 February: HSA announced that it had approved Pfizer's Paxlovid COVID-19 treatment tablet for use in Singapore. [14]Two politicians, Minister of State for Communications and Information and National Development Tan Kiat How and Parliamentary Secretary for Culture, Community and Youth and Social and Family Development Eric Chua, have revealed that they tested positive for COVID-19.