As the snaking queues to buy groceries grew longer, shoppers at the two-storey FairPrice supermarket in central Bedok started abandoning their baskets, including those with frozen food items in them.
It was a few hours after the disease outbreak alert was raised from yellow to orange at about 5.30pm last Friday - and the crowd at the 24-hour FairPrice supermarket at Block 212 Bedok North Street 1 was growing at an alarming rate.
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