Range of measures in place to deal with COVID19 clusters in foreign worker dormitories, including housing those who are well in SAF camps, vacant HDB blocks
SINGAPORE: Foreign workers who are not sick and working in essential services will be housed separately, and more measures will be enforced to maintain hygiene and food supplies in dormitories, announced Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong on Thursday .
Workers are being tested "aggressively” to separate those who are infected or suspected cases from those who are healthy in order to reduce the number of workers in each dorm and make the situation more manageable, Mr Wong added. Under the 'circuit breaker' laws that came into play on Tuesday, foreign workers living at dormitories are prohibited from leaving their dormitory premises.
“That's why there was a delay in picking them up. So it's very likely that the virus spread has been going around for some time in the dormitories, and we are now seeing all the indicators of it.” Giving a scale of the operations, she noted that at the S11 dormitory alone, 40,000 meals are delivered daily.
“What that means is that, in terms of the maintenance of the hygiene amenities as well as the cleanliness management, it is of a completely different order of magnitude, and we have to be able to take care of that too.”
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