Record 120 new coronavirus cases in Singapore, 2 foreign worker dormitories gazetted as isolation areas

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Around 20,000 workers at S11 Dormitory @ Punggol and Westlite in Toh Guan will be quarantined in their rooms for the next 14 days.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE - Two foreign worker dormitories which have seen large numbers of Covid-19 cases have been gazetted as isolation areas to stem transmission of the coronavirus in the community.

MOH said it does not currently have a breakdown of how many of these new cases are linked to clusters or unlinked. This brings Singapore's total to 1,309 cases. On the move to designate the two dormitories as isolation areas, Minister for Manpower Josephine Teo said:"The key objective is to ensure the health and well-being of everyone, not just of our own people but also foreign workers helping our economy... We want to give foreign workers the assurance that the measures we take are in their interest as well as their well-being."

On Friday, the Government announced its tightest measures to date to stem the spike in local Covid-19 cases. All workplace premises, other than those in essential services and key economic sectors, will have to close from Tuesday to May 4, and all schools will move to full home-based learning.

 

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