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SINGAPORE: Singapore reported on Tuesday (October 13) that there was no COVID-19 news in bedrooms for the first time in more than six months.
Since the first two bedroom infections were reported on March 29, the number of bedroom infections has increased to 54,485.
Bedroom instances, which come with specially constructed bedrooms, factory bedrooms and transitional-framed dwellings, make up the majority of Singapore’s 57,884 instances.
The number of instances was reduced to single digits in October, however, at its peak, more than 1,000 new instances consistent with the day were known.
FIRST CASES
The first two COVID-19 infections in dormitories (cases 826 and 829) were reported on 29 March. Linked to others, paint pass holders from Bangladesh and India were admitted to hospitals for treatment.
A day later, the first batch of bedrooms was announced. Four cases shown, adding the two reported on March 29, have been connected to form a new group in the S11 bedroom Punggol.
Less than a week after the first cases were announced, the number of bedroom-related infections has increased to double digits.
As of April 3, the organization in bedroom S11 24 people, with some other organization in the bedroom Westlite Toh Guan expanded to 18 cases.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that a “circuit breaker” was needed to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the country.
Two days later, bedroom S11 and Westlite Toh Guan were the first two bedrooms in Singapore to be classified as isolation zones under the Infectious Diseases Act.
This meant that the 19,800 migrants in those two bedrooms were quarantined in their rooms, while other dormitories would do the same.
Labor Minister Josephine Teo said at the time that measures were being put in place for the fitness and well-being of “everyone. “
“Not only the citizens of Singapore, but also the foreign staff who are here for our economy and their employers. We need to give foreign staff the security that these measures are being taken in their most productive interests and well-being,” Teo added. .
As the country entered the breakout period, the number of cases in dormitories began to increase rapidly.
Less than two weeks after the first two cases were reported, the Ministry of Health experienced 202 new bedroom-related cases on April 9, the first time the number of bedroom cases exceeds three figures.
At this time, there were groups in nine bedrooms, such as groups in structure sites, structure sites and the Mustafa center.
The multi-ministerial organization announced a “dedicated strategy” to break the expansion of dormitories, adding healthy housing in army camps and unemployed HDB apartments.
The workers were evaluated “aggressively” to separate the infected.
On April 14, about a month after the first instances were announced, the Ministry of Health announced that doctors and nurses from hospitals and polyclinics would be deployed in all dormitories to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Higher cases and on April 20 the country reported the highest daily number of COVID-19 infections in dormitories, with 1369.
The Ministry of Health said it detected many more due to “exhaustive testing” and that many had a “benign disease. “
At this stage, there were more than 30 teams in the bedrooms, the largest of the S11 bedroom, which recorded 1977 showed cases.
STOP WORK ORDER
With 1,050 new cases of COVID-19 in dormitories reported on April 21, migrants staying in dormitories were ordered to avoid running and avoid entering and leaving their homes until May 4.
Ms. Teo said this all that the government “planned” and that the staff were possible channels of infection back and forth as they entered and left the dormitories.
The prime minister said the large number of cases in the dormitories is a “serious problem,” adding that the government would accumulate medical resources in the dormitories.
Older workers, who are most vulnerable, would be transferred “preventively” to a separate bedroom, where they would be monitored more closely.
“For our migrant workers, let me tighten again: we will take care of you, just as we care about the Singaporeans. We thank you for your cooperation at this difficult time. We’ll see for his health, well-being and livelihood,” he said.
The number of cases in dormitories remained in hundreds, and in May, more than 14,000 of those cases were recorded.
Ms Teo told Parliament on 4 May that the stage in the giant dormitories was widely stable. Suspension of paintings and for all migrant staff in the dormitories has been extended until 1 June.
Six days later, on 10 May, the Ministry of Health reported that there were no new instances similar to the S11 bedroom, the first time since early April.
But the groups grew up in dormitories. There are still a lot of new instances in the bedrooms, with 860 registered on May 10.
There were at least groups of COVID-19s active in Singapore at this point, the vast majority similar to dormitories.
Within two months of notification of the first arrangement in bedrooms greater than 31,000.
When Singapore exited its circuit breaker on June 1 and new network instances fell to zero, the difference may be more surprising, with 408 new instances in dormitories.
CLEAN COVID-19 DORMITIES
On 1 June, the Ministry of Labour (MOM) and the Interagency Working Group announced that COVID-19 had been cleaned from the first batch of bedrooms, including specially built bedrooms, converted into factories and transitionally structured dwellings.
MOM announced what dormitory operators and employers will want to do before staff can repaint in Phase 1.
At the end of June, the number of COVID-19 cases in dormitories remained above 100, with 41,000 of these cases since the start of the epidemic.
The cases remained in the 3 digits for the first two weeks of July, with a small peak on July 14 when 338 new bedroom instances were registered. That day, MOM reported that another 193 bedrooms had been cleaned of COVID-19 as they headed toward their purpose of cleaning all the bedrooms until mid-August.
At the time, some of the larger teams had surpassed the 2,000-case mark, adding the Sungei Tengah Lodge and the S11 bedroom in Punggol.
Daily instances in the bedrooms remained above 100, even more so at the end of July when more tests were done. On 25 July, the Ministry of Health reported that 505 in the dormitories had tested positive.
Community instances had been at a low point for weeks and Singapore was already in phase 2 of its reopening.
On August 5, an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases was reported in dormitories, with 903 new cases.
“They are a component of the last personnel organization that was eliminated and come from dormitories with a maximum prevalence of COVID-19. As a result, we expect the daily number of instances to be higher in the coming days, before reducing it thereafter as the inter-agency executive organization completes the cleaning of the bedrooms,” the Ministry of Health said.
The Ministry of Health said it was still on track to empty all bedrooms until August 7, with the exception of some separate blocks in dormitories that served as quarantine facilities.
The Ministry of Health indicated that two days later, the interagency executing organization had completed the allArray tests with the exception of the few freelancers that were used as quarantine facilities.
On August 8, the S11 bedroom set was closed – the house of the first two instances of the COVID-19 bedroom – It had been more than 4 months since instances 826 and 829 had been moved to the hospital.
New instances in dormitories continued to decline and by mid-August had fallen below 100.
On August 11, MOM stated that all bedrooms had been cleaned by COVID-19, “with the exception of 17 separate blocks” that are used as quarantine facilities.
The Ministry of Labor also announced a “multilevel approach” to make sure they return to work, adding normal regime tests and requiring staff to monitor their own health, for example by reporting their temperature and if they show symptoms using the FWMOMCare app twice. One day.
About a week later, on August 19, MOM reported that all bedrooms were coVID-19 free.
NEW CLUSTERS EMERGE IN OPEN BEDROOMS
But three days later, a new group was met in a bedroom that in the past had been declared COVID-19 free.
Sungei Tengah Lodge, Singapore’s largest specially built dormitory with 16,000 residents, had 57 cases and the group would succeed in more than 200.
New equipment began to appear in dormitories that had been cleaned by the authorities.
Ms. Teo said this is “part of the plan,” with instances detected by regime tests.
As of September 6, thousands of employees living in dormitories had been scheduled to conduct regime tests on the list. The scheduled ones were allowed to return to work.
Cases in the new conglomerates began to develop. On Tuesday, new conglomerates were registered in 21 bedrooms, with nearly 900 cases since 22 August.
They come with the Avery Lodge bedroom, which now has 136 instances of COVID-19, and the Westlite Toh Guan bedroom, with 120 instances. They had already been declared COVID-19-free on 10 and 14 August respectively.
Some of the new equipment has closed, adding S11 Dormitory, Cochrane Lodge 1 and Changi Lodge 2.
On October 1, MOM reported moving 342 migrants to a Space-Tuas dormitory at a government quarantine center for 40 days, following the detection of a new case in the bedroom on September 28.
“An initial assessment had indicated that physical segregation measures designed to save staff on two other dormitory blocks from the mix may have been violated,” MOM said.
Security measures were strictly implemented in the affected bloc and the 342 employees, who painted for 27 employers, were considered to be at risk, the Ministry of Labour said.
The number of new instances in dormitories has continued to decline, with increases to a figure in October so far.
On Tuesday, the number of instances fell to 0 for the first time in more than six months.
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