Coronavirus: no truth to India news reports on ‘Singapore variant’, says health ministry

Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has refuted news reports in India claiming of a “Singapore variant” of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, adding that “there is no truth whatsoever in the assertions found within the reports”.“There is no ‘Singapore variant’,” MOH said in a statement late on Tuesday night.The ministry was referring to two reports published on the day.The first was in Hindustan, an English-language daily, with the headline “Coronavirus variant found in Singapore can be…