A total of 62,000 employees in Singapore, most foreigners hired in labour-intensive industries, have not yet been scheduled for mandatory regime control for Covid-19 before Saturday’s detection deadline, the government warned Tuesday.
Those who do not will not return to work, said in joint press the Ministry of Labour (MOM), the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), the Economic Development Council (EDB) and the Health Promotion Council (HPB). Launch. .
To date, approximately 1,500 employers still want to log in to DGPS’s swab registration formula to schedule their workers for their regime tests, representing approximately 8% of the total number of employers who will have to do so, according to the press release.
As a component of the guards to ensure the restart of work, the personnel, many of whom are from India, who are staying in dormitories, structure, maritime and procedural personnel and personnel who call at the sites of the structure must go through regimen tests every 14 days. .
Employers are reminded that these staff will have to have conducted a swab check in the last 14 days and have started their 14-day control cycle regime, Channel News Asia reported in submitting the statement.
Workers who have not done so will have their AccessCode prestige reflected in red under “health prestige” and will not be able to return to work, the press release says.
“We remind employers to temporarily plan schedules for their workers’ appointments to avoid interruptions in their business activities. You can view the control places in the swab registration formula when booking appointment dates.
“This includes 18 regional detection centers across the island,” the press added.
Once staff have been programmed in the swab registration formula for the first time, they will be assigned new dates for long-term regime control swabs in the list.
Employers will need to sign in to the swab registration formula to check if there are new staff for which they wish to make appointments.
The government stated that employers who behave irresponsiblely and consistently do not schedule staff for the regime tests on the list will possibly see their privileges of good fortune reduced.
BCA has taken steps to oppose an organization of corporations and their staff who have not gone through regime tests during a prolonged era, despite reminders to their employers.
BCA stated that it had cancelled authorization to repaint for 1,148 employees so far. These employees may repaint once they have undergone the regimen tests on their list.
Meanwhile, Singapore reported on Tuesday 40 new instances of Covid-19, one on the network and seven imported infections.
This brings the national total to 56,852.
The single network infection is a foreign employee moving here, the Ministry of Health (MS) said in its initial update. The seven imported instances had been put into practice when they arrived in Singapore, the ministry of fitness said.
The rest of the infections are foreign workers.
The seven imported imports reported on Monday had returned from India and Malaysia on 17 and 19 August.
With 72 instances discharged on Monday, 55,658 patients have recovered from the disease and have been discharged from hospitals or network care facilities.
A total of 78 patients remain in the hospital, while 1,049 recover at network facilities.
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