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SINGAPORE: A new group of COVID-19 was reported on Saturday (August 22) in Singapore’s largest bedroom, approximately one month after it was declared “completely free” from the coronavirus.
Two of the newly shown COVID-19 instances in Singapore are connected to 55 past instances to shape a new organization at Sungei Tengah Lodge’s Dormitory at 500 Old Choa Chu Kang Road, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced Saturday.
Sungei Tengah Lodge is among the largest in Singapore before the bedroom was declared COVID-19 free through the Ministry of Labour (MOM) on July 21.
More than 2,200 demos had been connected to the cluster. The Ministry of Health closed the group on 18 July.
Sungei Tengah Lodge is Singapore’s largest specially built bedroom, with around 16,000 living there.
It first declared an isolation zone on April 9 and one of the first dormitories to be declared an isolation zone under the Infectious Diseases Act. The notification revoked on July 18.
The MOM and the Ministry of Health reported on 18 August that approximately one hundred new instances of COVID-19 were detected in dormitories of migrant staff who had in the past been given the green light for the virus.
Some of the new instances were detected by regime tests every two weeks, and some of the staff returned to work.
EMPLOYERS MUST SCHEDULE A SWAB TEST
On Saturday, the government said employers will need to make sure their staff has conducted a COVID-19 swab check in the last 14 days before September 5, as part of plans to make sure they get back to work. Those who haven’t will be able to go back to work.
Workers who remain in the dormitories and those in the structure, maritime and procedural sectors, as well as those who make a stopover at the sites of the structure, shall go through regime tests every 14 days.
To date, about 16,000 employers have scheduled their staff for regime tests on the Health Promotion Council’s swab registration system list, the government said. Approximately 102,000 employees requiring regime testing have not yet been scheduled for a swab test.
“Employers are reminded to temporarily plan appointment spaces for their staff if they haven’t, in order to disrupt business operations,” the government said Saturday.
Lately, about 13,700 continue to complete their quarantine period, the Ministry of Physical Fitness said Saturday, adding that they will be evaluated at the end of quarantine.
“We expect the number of cases to remain at the top level in the coming days, before reducing it thereafter,” the ministry said.
Singapore reported 50 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, two on the grid and five imported infections.
This brings the total number of in the country to 56,266, and the deaths remain at 27.
Both instances of the network are Singaporean and are lately similar to past instances, the Ministry of Health said.
One case, a 63-year-old woman, was examined after being admitted to the hospital for some other medical condition. The other case of netpaintings, a 56-year-old woman, went to paint at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) College Central. She detected coronavirus after she was diagnosed with an acute respiratory infection.
The five imported instances come with a Singaporean who returned from Iran on August 10, two dependent pass holders, a student pass holder and a recently hired paint permit holder in Singapore.
The five imported bodies were placed in home notices upon arrival in Singapore, and were tested while indicating their notices of stay at home in compromised facilities.
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