Raffles Shopping Centre

Changi Jewel, where used to be crowded with countless lovers, families and tourists.

(Photo: Jeremy Long)

City Hall Mrt Station in the morning. This station used to be crowded with people going to work .

. (Photo: Jeremy Long)

Central Business District workers usually took a break here during working hours. However,  there's only one kid practicing basketball there.

 (Photo: Marcus Mark Ramos)

Bugis Street market was often filled with tourists and bargain-hunting locals looking for street food, mobile phone accessories and clothes.

(Photo: Jeremy Long)

A lone passerby walks past a street of shuttered shops in the sweltering afternoon heat in Chinatown. 

 (Photo: Jeremy Long)

It was all quiet at Changi Airport - no check-ins, nothing to check out.

(Photo: Jeremy Long)

A Lau Pa Sat, The food centre in the Central Business District is normally swarmed by office workers.

 (Photo: Jeremy Long)

Marina Bay Waterfront Promenade in the afternoon. This stretch was normally popular with tourists seeking a photo of the cityscape.

(Photo: Marcus Mark Ramos)

The lights stay on along Marina Bay waterfront on day one of the circuit breaker even as many workplaces temporarily close their doors.

 (Photo: Jeremy Long)

It is not just wet weather that has emptied the streets at rush hour on the first day of the circuit-breaker period along South Bridge Road. 

(Photo: Jeremy Long)

A row of idling taxis wait for passengers - an unusual sight on a rainy day

(Photo: Marcus Mark Ramos)

The night is still young, but there’s no revelling, no partying, no drinking and no happy hour at Clarke Quay

 (Photo: Marcus Mark Ramos)

Advertisements used to blare from a row of monitors flanking the passage to the basement of ION Orchard mall. During CB, there was just the whirr of escalators that can be heard.

 (Photo: Marcus Mark Ramos)

Orchard Road, Singapore’s busy shopping belt, is now deserted because all retail stores save those providing essential services and goods, have been ordered to close. 

 (Photo: Marcus Mark Ramos)

Shadows fall on Mustafa Centre which used to be crowded at all times of the day as it operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The mall in Little India has been identified as a COVID-19 cluster and was shut for disinfection well before the circuit breaker kicked in.

(Photo: Marcus Mark Ramos)

An Ang Mo Kio hawker centre stands eerily quiet in the mid-day. Eateries are allowed to stay open, but customers are only allowed to take away food

 (Photo: Jeremy Long)

An area where old men used to gather to play chess is cordoned off

 

These are pictures of an empty Singapore during Circuit Breaker that we (most likely) will never see again.

It's kind of interesting to see empty places that used to be crowded every day before Covid-19 pandemic happened. I hope and wish that we will never see an empty Singapore again.

 

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Reference : https://infographics.channelnewsasia.com/interactive/singaporecircuitbreaker/index.html