SINGAPORE: The former Qiaonan Primary School site has been refurbished to house foreign workers in essential services, the Singapore ...
SINGAPORE: The former Qiaonan Primary School site has been refurbished to house foreign workers in essential services, the Singapore Land Authority said on Friday .
The site at 15 Tampines Street 11 can accommodate about 500 people and has recently started to receive workers, a SLA spokesperson said.Moving healthy foreign workers to temporary facilities has been part of the Government’s strategy to curb the spread of COVID-19. Inside the former Qiaonan Primary School, which has been used to house healthy foreign workers in essential services. .
In April, Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong said that migrant workers who were not sick and were working in essential services would be housed separately from those in dormitories. Military camps, Changi Exhibition Centre, vacant HDB flats and offshore floating lodging were among the sites selected as potential living quarters.Some vacant state properties - based on their existing infrastructure and size - have been identified as suitable options as well, according to the SLA spokesperson.
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