SINGAPORE – Four vacant Housing Board blocks in Taman Jurong, known as the “diamond blocks”, are being refurbished to house healthy foreign workers working in essential services. In a notice to residents there on Friday (April 17), Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who is MP for the Taman Jurong ward in Jurong GRC, said that works are ongoing to refurbish the vacant flats at Blocks 63 to 66 Yung Kuang Road to provide temporary housing for foreign workers, as part of Singapore’s national fight against Covid-19. “Many of these foreign workers are doing important jobs that help to keep Singapore going: cleaners and maintenance workers in our neighbourhoods, those who keep our public transport running, and workers who keep electricity and water flowing to our homes,” he wrote. He explained to residents that these workers need to be temporarily housed away from the existing worker dormitories, while the Government makes every effort to reduce and stop the spread of Covid-19 in their living quarters. “This will keep these workers safe, which will in turn help all of us stay safe,” he wrote. The four 21-storey blocks, which are connected to form a diamond with a courtyard in the middle, are an iconic sight… Read full this story
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