Covid-19 transmission rates in dorms are bad (mid-April 2020)
The increase in cases in quarantined and non-quarantined dorms are compared in this article, It is clearly worse in non-quarantined dorms. Why is that so?
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04, 2020
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04, 2020
Thinning out the dorms: we have the acreage, do we have the will?
Moving foreign workers out of crowded dorms is imperative, but slow action is probably traceable to mental blocks among policy-makers. Due to obstinacy, how bad can things get? Very bad.
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04, 2020
Need paracetamol? Call an ambulance, pay $150
A worker in a quarantined dorm needs a painkiller for his hip which had suffered a work injury. But where can he get the tablets? There are no doctors or pharmacists around.
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04, 2020
More than half of Singapore’s Covid-19 cases are migrant workers
TWC2 statement to mark the sad day when low-wage work permit holders became the majority of Covid-19 cases in Singapore despite their being generally healthier and younger adults compared to the overall population.
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04, 2020
Is Singapore falling behind in testing for Covid-19?
When a worker is infected with Covid-19, it is surprising that none of his room-mates are immediately tested, and this raises big questions about Singapore's testing capability and the overall strategy.
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04, 2020
Worker gets Covid-19, what now for his room-mates?
Volunteer Frank speaks to a worker confined inside a dorm room where, 4 days ago, a roommate came down with Covid-19 and was rushed away.
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04, 2020
Yarif caught between two bureaucracies
Yarif has been waiting more than a year for this injury compensation claim to conclude. He's told that his Special Pass won't be extended much longer.
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04, 2020
Covid-19: Media Statement, 13 April 2020
A statement by TWC2 calling on MOM to rescind its Advisory of 6 April 2020 which suggests to employers that they can reduce reduce foreign workers' salaries by 25%.
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04, 2020
Covid-19: Media Statement, 13 April 2020 (longer version)
More detail why TWC2 objects to MOM's Advisory of 6 April 2020 that appears to approve of employers cutting foreign workers' wages by 25%.
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04, 2020
Electronic payment of salary: ten years’ inaction catches up on Singapore
Three days after TWC2 issued a media statement touching on the incompatibility between cash payment of salaries and quarantine, MOM issued a directive requiring electronic payment. But what new chaos await us as this is hastily implemented?