COVID-19: Sungei Tengah Lodge declared an isolation area under Infectious Diseases Act
Channel NewsAsia - SG·2020-04-09 00:19
Screengrab from Google Maps showing the exterior of Sungei Tengah Lodge.
SINGAPORE: A fourth foreign worker dormitory has been gazetted as an isolation area, following a rise in COVID-19 cases.
Sungei Tengah Lodge was declared an isolation area under the Infectious Diseases Act "for the purpose of preventing the spread or possible outbreak of the infectious disease COVID-19", according to a notice by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the Government Gazette.
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Userfgkx 09/04/2020
Carry on with what you're doing (or rather, not doing) will result in ALL dormitories being declared isolation areas in no time. Might as well do it in one fell swoop and declare all as isolation areas now. And for goodness sake, you need to swap every one of them now and thoroughly disinfect all dormitories before the bomb explodes. Basic screening will not achieve much at this point. Make it mandatory for them to wear masks at all times given the cramped, shared environment. If you think this is too tedious a task and want to gamble on things getting better without any further action, then you can't be more wrong! Because when you finally decide that things must come to a full stop, it would be too late!
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Tony Tan8490 09/04/2020
MOH should immediately conduct swap test at these dormitories on all living there. Separate the positive and negative so that the spread can be reduced. This of course will raise the total infection figures but better than let natural take it course. We are seeing potential infection rate of more than 5000 based on current situation. Pray hard that local transmission confined within these few clusters for these few weeks
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ismal 09/04/2020
hopefully no more stop at fout
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royceK 14/04/2020
Spore total more than 40 dormitories , what is the number of foreign workers house in each dormitory n how many are infected in each so that citizens can get better full picture
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