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SINGAPORE: Around one hundred new instances of COVID-19 have been detected in dormitories of migrant workers, who in the past had been released from the virus, the Ministry of Labour (MOM) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) said Tuesday (18 August).
They added that these cases had been detected by regime tests every two weeks and that some of the staff had returned to work.
“We have taken timely steps to involve and isolate instances in COVID-19. We have also taken competitive steps to involve, insinuate and isolate close contacts,” the departments said in a joint reaction to LA NAC questions.
“To date, more than 60% of instances have been closed. The measures taken have resulted in effective containment with a small number of additional instances detected.”
As a result of these new cases, about 7,000 migrant employees have been quarantined and less than 2% of them have coronavirus, MOM and MOH said.
“These are controlled according to strict protocols and are reinforced through more centralized quarantine services that can be obtained by the final touch of cleaning the bedrooms,” they added.
He announced last Wednesday that 800 migrant employees had been “newly quarantined” after a case of COVID-19 was discovered among them in a transparent dormitory.
Ministries said the government had adopted a “measured approach,” establishing quick and close contacts of inflamed inflameds in a compromised quarantine facility.
They added that citizens of the specially constructed bedroom block where the inflameds lived were quarantined.
“When we come across a new positive case in COVID-19 at a cleaned site, we will temporarily quarantine the entire block as a precaution and take competitive samples of all migrant personnel on the bloc,” the ministries said.
“Then we’ll cancel quarantine for personnel who are evaluated as at risk,” they added.
“While this technique would possibly involve up to a few hundred migrant employees on a case-by-case basis, it ensures that we control the detected case and minimize the spread that can eventually also reach thousands more.”
PREVENTING A SECOND WAVE OF INFECTIONS IN DELIBERATE DORMITORIES
In reaction to the ANC’s questions, the Department of Health and MOM described the steps they are taking to save you a momentary wave of infections in open dormitories.
These include “routine tests listed” every two weeks through which the approximately one hundred new instances of COVID-19 have been detected. The tests are carried out with migrant staff living in dormitories, structural staff or production sites, as well as staff in the structure, maritime and procedural sectors.
More than 100,000 migrants have started testing the regime, ministries said Tuesday, adding that seven out of 10 employers had used the online swab registration formula to schedule it.
Immigrants living in dormitories are grouped according to the type of industry they work in, ministries said.
The inter-agency management organization that was established to assist migrant staff and dormitory operators in this era will monitor the disease rate of reports of acute respiratory infections, and wastewater will be analyzed to assist in the monitoring and control of COVID-19.
Contacts and “aggressive operations” will be searched if a new case is detected.
“Industry agencies will work heavily with employers to assess the threat in the threat and put protection delays in place if necessary,” the ministries added.
Immediate close contact of positive instances will be used for 40 14 days in a compromised facility, while other nearby contacts will be quarantined for testing to ensure they are COVID-19 free before returning to work.
“New cases of infection in clean bedrooms and settlement locations remind us of the need to be alert,” MOM and MOH said.
“Our priority will be to save it and prevent new infections through early detection, immediate containment and effective isolation,” they added.
“Early detection: we must take appropriate steps to contain, insinuate and isolate any new COVID-19 infections in open dormitories and decanting sites.”
On Tuesday, Singapore reported 100 new cases of COVID-19, the maximum of which involve infections involving recently quarantined paint permit holders. Workers living in dormitories account for approximately 95% of Singapore’s 55,938 infections.
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