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Budget debate: Newly arrived migrant workers can serve bulk of SHN in Quick Build Dorms
The Quick Build Dormitories will serve as new Migrant Worker Onboarding Centres under a pilot programme.ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
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Singapore News - More than 155,000 people have received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine as at Sunday, Senior Minister of State for Health Janil Puthucheary told Parliament yesterday. He said Singapore will have the capacity and capability to have its population vaccinated by the. Read more at www.tnp.sg
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December 15, 2020
There are about 323,000 dormitory dwellers in Singapore.
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SINGAPORE - Almost half of migrant workers living in dormitories have had a Covid-19 infection, the authorities said on Monday (Dec 14).
As of Sunday, 54,505 such workers have tested positive for the virus via a polymerase chain reaction or PCR test.
Another 98,289 had a positive result from a serology test, which checks for a previous infection.
This means 152,794 workers in dorms have tested positive in PCR or serology tests or both.
They form 47 per cent of the 323,000 dormitory dwellers in Singapore, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in a joint statement.