Epidemiological research and knowledge of tactile studies published Sunday night showed that 25 new or recent infections showed that they are connected on 3 new equipment in the bedrooms, bringing the number of bedroom equipment discovered last week to 12, the Straits Times reported.
The number of new instances in the city-state has been reduced to just a few dozen, after a national effort of months to test, isolate and treat the network of high-risk foreign personnel. According to data from the Ministry of Health, bedrooms. Low-wage staff housing underpinning Singapore’s structure and service sectors accounts for approximately 95% of the country’s 57,000 people. At the beginning of the containment measures in April, the bedrooms housed more than 300,000 people.
Leong Hoe Nam, an infectious disease physician at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, said the resurgence of dormitories posed a risk to the country’s reaction strategy, but that the epidemic gave the impression that it was contained for the time being.
“The threat is coming, but if it was a problem, it deserves to have arisen, it is not,” he said. “The mask and culture of social estating appear in the paintings in the bedrooms of foreign painters. The threat of transmission to Singaporeans remains low. “
On 19 August, the Singapore Ministry of Labour stated that all bedrooms had been removed from the virus. However, just four days later, the government announced house notices for some 4,800 workers, after 58 instances connected to a group at Sungei Tengah Lodge, a purpose. – Bedroom built
The resurgence of cases in workers’ dormitories shows the process of demanding situations faced by countries around the world in the fight against the disease. Japan recently experienced its biggest wave of coronavirus infections after a peak last April. South Korea’s government this month prolonged stricter restrictions on social media. esttachment in Seoul’s metropolitan domain after its own outbreak. The pandemic is likely to be a challenge in the coming years, even with a vaccine, according to pharmaceutical and public fitness experts.
After being praised first for its reaction to the virus in the first few weeks of the Covid outbreak, an explosion of infections in the dormitories of foreign workers caused Singapore to move towards a more restrictive technique of the virus, imposing a blockade in April so close. in restaurants and offices and prompted a rethink of their testing strategy.
Singapore’s inter-agency working group found last month that cases have occurred in quarantine facilities where migrant personnel have been placed after being exposed to other infectious cases, according to Kenneth Mak, director of medical services. of the Ministry of Health. At a press conference on 21 August, he added that they are also “looking very carefully” at the re-infections imaginable after what was believed to be the first such case in Hong Kong last month.
“In addition to checking the polymer chain reaction, we also conduct serological checks to determine whether some of these cases exist or beyond infections,” the Ministry of Health said in the September 6 press release on new bedroom cases. check if a case has tested positive so far, indicating a likely infection beyond. “
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