SINGAPORE-More social workers serving on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic were found to have experienced a higher level of anxiety, depression and stress, compared with healthcare workers, according to a new study. The Singapore University of Social Sciences( SUSS) study, which interviewed 308 professional social workers here from June 19 to 27 last year, found that a majority of respondents, or 56.5 per cent, were suffering from anxiety. Singapore had then just exited a circuit breaker,

SINGAPORE-When a clinical specialist resigned in April last year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, his family finances suffered a huge blow. The healthcare small and medium-sized enterprise he worked for asked him to take no-pay leave, forcing his hand, said the man who wanted to be known only as Mr S.As his family's sole breadwinner, Mr S, 29, has to support three schoolgoing siblings aged between 13 and 20. His parents are divorced. His mother, who is in her 50s and was diagnosed with late-stage can