COVID-19 measures: Safe distancing situation has 'improved significantly', but must still be taken seriously, says DPM Heng

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COVID-19 measures: Safe distancing situation has 'improved significantly', but must still be taken seriously, says DPM Heng
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SINGAPORE: The situation concerning elevated safe distancing measures in public places has 'improved significantly' compared to the last few days, ...

However, the first few days of the circuit breaker period saw members of the public flouting the elevated measures, with thousands of warnings issued by the authorities.

Singapore has seen a spike in novel coronavirus cases at foreign worker dormitories over the past week. As for the long term, the Government will “look at what else we need to do to make sure that we all take care of the foreign workers, who have left their country to help us build Singapore", said Mr Heng.

“So let’s make the full use of what is available, be creative about it, rather than to think about what else we need to do – that’s something that we are all working on at the moment – but be creative in using what is already there,” he said.

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