At the former Serangoon Junior College campus, work has already started to turn the building from a school into a temporary home for migrant workers. The facility in Upper Serangoon Road is one of 36 sites that have been earmarked to house healthy workers in the short to medium term to reduce crowding in dormitories amid the Covid-19 outbreak. Some of these sites are located in the middle of residential estates. Workers at these places will go to work via transport arranged by their employers, and not be allowed to leave the premises on their days off. Instead, facilities such as minimarts, barber services and entertainment options will be set up at most sites. The vast majority of coronavirus cases have been found among migrant workers in dormitories, prompting calls to relook these workers’ living conditions. Senior Minister of State for Culture, Community and Youth Sim Ann, an MP for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC, said yesterday it would be prudent for temporary migrant worker housing sites to remain self-contained until an effective vaccine arrives, “for the same reason that we minimise contact between households”. Several blocks along Kismis Avenue in her Bukit Timah ward have been converted into temporary migrant worker… Read full this story
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