SINGAPORE: A forum letter published in Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao that links the COVID-19 outbreak in dormitories to the personal hygiene and ...
on Saturday became the 13th foreign worker dormitory to be gazetted an isolation area, meaning residents will have to be quarantined in their rooms.READ: COVID-19: Bangladeshi worker, whose wife gave birth while he was in critical state, moves out of ICU
"Personal habits are extremely important – washing of hands, keeping yourself clean are very important," he said. Mr Shanmugam also acknowledged concerns over the living conditions in dormitories, saying that conditions in the newer dormitories were"quite okay", while standards in the older ones varied.
Some people have also expressed concern that foreign domestic workers, because of potential interaction with foreign workers on their days off, could be another group at risk of being infected in large numbers.Foreign domestic workers have to comply with circuit breaker measures and must remain in their employers' homes on their rest days.
Looking at the bigger picture, Mr Shanmugam said Singaporeans have a duty to care for foreign workers and show them empathy, adding that the Government and community have moved to help them.
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