Daily Dose @5: DAP questions 146 percent jump in allocation for PM Dept, S'pore studying COVID-19 effect on unborn babies

Among the headlines for Monday, 30th November 2020, DAP’s Chong Chieng Jen was debating Budget 2021 at the committee stage in the Dewan Rakyat, specifically on the budget for the prime minister’s department, highlighting the “drastic” increase of the allocation for development expenditure under the Prime Minister’s Department from RM2.93 billion in 2020, to RM7.22 billion in 2021, which he said represented a jump of 146 per cent. 

 

Also, Singapore doctors are studying the impact of coronavirus on unborn babies to understand whether the infection can be transferred during pregnancy, how babies develop antibodies in the womb and whether they offer an effective shield against the virus.

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