SINGAPORE: The health of Singapore’s founding leader Lee Kuan Yew has “worsened” from an infection after nearly six weeks in hospital, the government said on Tuesday.

The 91-year-old former prime minister -- widely credited with transforming Singapore from an economic backwater to one of Asia’s wealthiest economies in just over three decades—has been in Singapore General Hospital since February 5, on life support at the intensive care unit and receiving treatment for severe pneumonia.

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