SINGAPORE – Ms Tay Jin Li picks up the little boy and carries him on her hip with the adept nonchalance of a mother of four. He sneezes and she wipes away his mucus.
“He wasn’t well last night, so we had to carry him throughout,” says Ms Tay, 49, matter-of-factly.
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