Topic of Interest: #Dormitory (687 Articles Found)
Dormitory operators will be allowed to organise congregational prayer sessions within dormitories for workers observing the month of Ramadan, subject to safe distancing measures. Congregational prayers will be held for the evening prayers (Terawih) during Ramadan and morning…
MOM unveiled on Fri a one-stop centre in Punggol for new migrant workers to complete their stay-home notice, get the necessary medical examination as well as the support to settle in. Located at a quick build dormitory, the…
Plans to relax the restrictions on the movements of migrant workers will be implemented progressively, when more of them have been vaccinated and infection rates remain under control, said the multi-ministry task force co-chair Lawrence Wong on Wed.…
With Covid-19 still circulating in Singapore, it will be too much of a risk to have migrant workers from dormitories mixing freely with the general population, said PM Lee. “We are actively working to make sure that their…
To help the authorities prevent and more quickly contain disease outbreak in the dormitories, all dormitories will be regulated under a single law – the Foreign Employee Dormitories Act (Feda), Second Minister for Manpower Tan See Leng said…
From this month onwards, migrant workers in Singapore will be able to have more opportunities to visit recreation centres (RCs), as the country further eases dormitory restrictions that were put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Second…
Newly arrived migrant workers will soon be housed in centres where they will complete their stay-home notice, medical examination and orientation programme all at once. Called the Migrant Worker Onboarding Centre, MOM said on Wed the new facilities…
A dormitory resident was among the 11 new COVID-19 cases reported in Singapore as of noon on Sun, MOH said in its daily update. The remaining 10 infections were imported and had been placed on stay-home notice upon…
A migrant worker who lives in a dormitory located on Kranji Way was the sole locally transmitted case of Covid-19 here on Tues. The remaining three cases are all imported, MOH said. MOH said that the 35-year-old Bangladeshi…
Their dining area remains empty — the workers are not allowed to eat there. And so Omar Sakib must have his meals in his room instead, with his 11 other roommates. They cannot “gather” in the dormitory corridors…
MOH confirmed 15 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore on Wed, taking the country’s total case count to 59,747. There is one new case of locally-transmitted infection, who resides in a dormitory. In addition, there are 14 imported cases,…
Most Singaporeans and PRs want to improve the welfare of migrant workers and are willing to pay more to companies that provide better working and living conditions to these workers, with the majority willing to pay between 5…
Migrant workers are generally contented with their working and living conditions here, though some think their salaries are insufficient due to the high cost of living in Singapore. Most of them also want to integrate more with the…
A Singaporean man who works at Changi Airport issuing electronic monitoring devices to incoming travellers on stay-home notice was among the 24 new COVID-19 infections reported in Singapore as of noon on Sun, said MOH. The 43-year-old man,…
Singapore has detected its first case of likely Covid-19 reinfection, a 28-year-old work permit holder who resides in a dormitory, MOH said on Sat. It had identified the reinfection in consultation with an expert panel after a rostered…
MOH confirmed 25 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore as of Fri, taking the country’s total case count to 59,629. There are two new cases of locally-transmitted infection, one from the community and one from a dormitory. The remaining…
Migrant workers in dormitories will be vaccinated by the end of this year, the same timeline as for the rest of Singapore, Second Minister for Manpower Tan See Leng said in Parliament on Mon. The workers – among…
The first Covid-19 infections picked up in foreign worker dormitories in a month are likely to be sporadic cases, experts have told ST. They said there was no need for alarm unless more cases start cropping up, while…
All travellers, including Singaporeans and permanent residents, will have to take a COVID-19 PCR test upon arrival into Singapore from 11.59pm on 24 Jan. With the resurgence of COVID-19 cases around the world, MOH said on Sat that…
A migrant worker who just arrived from India last month was found to have Covid-19 this week after he started work in the construction line. It was the first case at a foreign worker dormitory since Dec 15…
A Bangladeshi migrant worker is suing his ex-employer and dormitory operator in Singapore, accusing them of “false imprisonment” after he was locked in his room during a coronavirus outbreak. Most of Singapore’s more than 58,000 cases have been…
From Wed, foreign workers who have been approved to enter Singapore and stay in migrant worker dormitories will have to put up at a designated facility and go through an extra seven-day testing regime there. They will have…
People calling for restrictions on migrant workers to be loosened as the country progresses towards phase three are missing the larger issues, said Second Minister for Manpower Tan See Leng. Phase three of Singapore’s reopening, which begins on…
Since the coronavirus pandemic swept the globe this year, cities from Asia to US and Europe have become stuck in a cycle. Cases rise, so they lock down. Cases fall, so they ease the measures. Then cases rise…
For seven months this year, Mr Zhang Jinlei stayed inside his dormitory room. He could not freely leave its compounds except when work resumed, as part of the authorities’ measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus in…
MOH confirmed 16 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore including one locally-transmitted case as of Tues, taking the country’s total to 58,341. The remaining fifteen cases are imported, who were either placed on the stay-home notice or isolated upon…
Almost half of migrant workers living in dormitories have had a Covid-19 infection, the authorities said on Mon. As of Sun, 54,505 such workers have tested positive for the virus via a PCR test. Another 98,289 had a…
As Singapore enters the final phase of reopening its economy after a partial lockdown earlier in the year, it will relax movement restrictions on migrant workers, including allowing them to be among the community once a month. This…
Singapore reported eight new cases of Covid-19 on Fri, seven of which were imported. The remaining case was locally transmitted — a foreign worker who stays in a dormitory and who had no symptoms. All his close contacts…
Migrant workers from approved dormitories can now use communal cooking facilities to whip up their own food on rest days, on top of receiving regular catered meals from their employers on work days. They can also use recreational…
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