COVID-19: Bukit Merah HDB blocks to house healthy foreign workers – report via yahoosg
SINGAPORE — Vacant Housing Development Board blocks in Bukit Merah are currently being refurbished to house healthy foreign workers in essential services amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The scheme buys back public housing on land with high redevelopment potential for other purpose. The Bukit Merah HDB blocks, located at Redhill Close, were vacated in 2018 but not yet demolished. Dormitories were not spared from COVID-19 spreadSam Tan, Member of Parliament for Radin Mas SMC where the HDB blocks are located in, said in a notice to residents in the area that the dormitories which the workers were originally slated to move into have not been spared from the spread of COVID-19.
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