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Ms Siti Ummu Aidilah Binte Badar, 29, reading a book with her son, Muhammad Al-Zai, Bin Muhammad Shafiq, 6.

Ms Siti Ummu Aidilah Binte Badar, 29, reading a book with her son, Muhammad Al-Zai, Bin Muhammad Shafiq, 6.

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SINGAPORE – Muhammad Al-Zaim Muhammad Shafiq is starting Primary 1 in January 2024, but he spent much of his pre-school life wearing a mask and practising social distancing.

He started nursery school at My First Skool at Block 63 Telok Blangah Heights when he was three, shortly before Covid-19 forced all schools to shut down during the circuit breaker in April 2020.

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