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What happens when pandemic meets vanishing trades?
Covid-19 has affected many businesses, including old-school trades. The Sunday Times talks to some tradesmen to see how they coped with it
Between April and July last year, sales at Mr Jimmy Mah's bakery in Paya Lebar plummeted by 60 per cent because of Covid-19.
Even before the pandemic struck, the business had already shrunk by half over the past two decades.
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on January 24, 2021, with the headline What happens when pandemic meets vanishing trades?. Subscribe
