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SINGAPORE: A day after the Ministry of Labor (MOM) announced that all bedrooms of foreign employees had been cleaned from COVID-19, in 17 specially constructed six-bedroom blocks. Apart from quarantine, another 800 members of migrant staff had to be isolated.
And all this was due to the discovery of a new case of COVID-19 in a bedroom in the past cleaned on August 12.
Since then, there have been more reports of new equipment in disease-free past dormitories, adding the Sungei Tengah Lodge, Singapore’s largest dormitory, Tuas View Dormitory, and Homestay Lodge.
Other new bands are at: Changi Lodge 2, North Coast Lodge, Toh Guan Dormitory, Cochrane Lodge 2, Westlite Toh Guan, Blue Stars Dormitory, Cochrane Lodge 1, Mandai Lodge 1, Tuas South Dormitory, Cassia – Penjuru, CDPL Tuas Dormitory and Kranji Lodge 1.
NEW ACE GROUP
The task of combating the bedroom epidemic now falls to the leadership of insurance’s new mother, Care and Engagement (ACE).
Led by ACE group leader Tung Yui Fai, he will take over interinstitutionality from 1 October.
Mandate: provide insurance to migrant staff living in dormitories. Ultimately, the ACE Group is implementing a comprehensive health plan, making fitness facilities more accessible, strengthening engagement with staff and other stakeholders, and fostering more powerful partnerships between Singaporeans and staff groups. , employers and dormitory operators.
Speaking exclusively to CNA on 3 September, Mr. Tung said his team intends to continue building on the paintings made through the working group.
“After five months, this working group effectively contained the outbreak and tested more than 300,000 immigrant painters. what’s more significant than we probably wouldn’t see is that thanks to the paintings of the inter-agency paintings, we were able to experience a primary fitness crisis that would potentially have hit our public fitness system,” he said.
NEW CASES IN CLEAR DREAMS
The elephant in the room, of course, is that new clean bedroom infections still emerge in the past, but the former army brigadier general does not flinn.
“When we say we cleaned the bedrooms, what we mean is that we examined all the staff and made sure they were negative before putting them in the bedroom.
“Reinfection could possibly come from beyond or old infections or possibly be due to infections from a third party, whether from others who come into contact with staff and bedroom, or from the workplace. So, I don’t think we can be sure that even if we’ve cleaned the bedrooms, there may be no reinfections,” he says.
ACE Group Medical Director Lam Meng Chon added: “All citizens are tested and tested negative or recovered, or if they test positive, they have been sent to receive the proper care they need.
“But this only happens at some point, there is an era of incubation of the virus, so when the user is infected, a day or two before the bedroom is cleared, the check may be negative. “
To minimize the threat of new cluster formation, the ACE organization plans to use a multi-tier prevention technique through remote measures, early detection coverage and regimen testing, and immediate isolation of new positive instances in COVID-19.
“The strategy we’ve designed allows us to have some confidence in the ability to stumble and manage,” Tung said.
“Of course, in the future, ACE (Group) would also like to use technology, higher technology, for greater detection, detection, increased involvement and isolation,” he added.
ROUTINE TESTS ALIGNED
Mr. Tung is under pressure for the ACE Group to do this alone, as migrant workers, dormitory operators and employers have a role to play.
This includes the practice of estating, ensuring that life situations and participation in regimen tests are indexed, a procedure that is a tool for early detection of positive cases in COVID-19 and prevention of the spread of coronavirus to the rest of the bedrooms.
As a component of the guards to ensure that they return to the paintings, the staff staying in the bedrooms, the construction, marine and procedural personnel, and the body of the staff who stop at the paint sites must undergo regime tests for COVID-19 every 14 days. . .
When asked how the ACE organization will help employers meet test needs every fortnight, Tung said convenience is essential.
We entrepreneurs by automatically generating the calendar after the first, once they have arranged it, the next record is automatically generated.
“We also allow employers to make decisions, if they think it is more convenient for staff to take the test in the dormitories, we have also established RRT centers in the dormitories, and we will also conduct pilot tests at night in the dormitories, some others to facilitate the approach of employers,” Mr. Tung said.
Dr. Lam noted that ongoing regimen testing on the list will break the COVID-19 transmission chain.
And should new infections inevitably occur, he said the government would continue to seek contacts and ingess cases in dormitories and workplaces.
“In the place of the task, the industry company will work intensively with employers to assess the risk and will even set a waiting time for protection if necessary.
“And in the dormitories, that’s where we would conduct competitive testing, as well as quarantine the entire block as a precautionary measure and assess the threat and cancel quarantine if some staff members are evaluated as low or zero,” Dr. Justice.
“So it’s the containment strategy that’s the component of general resurgence control if we look at it,” he added.
KEEP WORKERS HEALTHY
In the meantime, the ACE Group will oversee the status quo of 12 medical centers on the island, in addition to on-site medical services in larger dormitories.
Dr. Lam said this will allow foreign staff to manage their acute and chronic diseases, adding intellectual health.
The strategy will be complemented by telemedicine and cellular programmes that allow self-control through workers.
This includes fitness and temperature controls through the FWMOMCare app twice a day, and staff can report their symptoms in case of discomfort.
In addition, the Group monitors trends in acute respiratory diseases and searches wastewater for COVID-19 viral lines from its screening plan.
“I think the key is not whether new instances will occur, but whether we can prevent those instances from adjusting to ever larger clusters. And ideally, never go back to the same scenario as in April, when the dormitories were to be published in the Gazette,” said Professor Hsu Li Yang, Vice Dean of Global Health and Head of the Infectious Diseases Program at THE NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.
While coverage opposed to new COVID-19 infections remains a key precedent for the ACE Group, it is also based on a more sustainable technique to stay healthy, whether physically and mentally, in the long term.
Mr. Tung said he was in a position to take on the day-to-day jobs and demanding situations of his new role.
“I think when the COVID-19 Array happened . . . the circuit breaker actually interrupted the way we live, the way we work. And I wondered what I can do to participate in this effort to combat COVID-19. They gave me the phone call and I said yes, and now I’m here. “
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