COVID-19: Next phase is to get recovery right for infected migrant workers – Josephine Teo

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Updated 4 May 2020 at 4:41 am·2-min read

Manpower Minister Josephine Teo at the live virtual taskforce press conference on 1 May, 2020. (PHOTO: MCI)

SINGAPORE — The manpower ministry is gearing up for the next phase in its fight against the COVID-19 outbreak among migrant workers, which is “about getting the recovery right,” said Minister for Manpower Josephine Teo on Monday (4 May).

The phase would involve building up community recovery facilities and housing recovered workers in suitable accommodation to minimise the risks of recurrent transmissions, Teo said in a ministerial statement in Parliament.

“We must work out a way to allow recovered and uninfected workers to go back to work safely. This will again be an enormous challenge, and not just the logistics of it,” she said.

“Many workers will be re-housed and have to get used to new friends and habits... Many employers will have to adjust to their workers being in different locations with new arrangements.”

New strategies will also have to be developed to monitor workers’ health, said Teo.

For example, the manpower ministry plans to issue oximeters, which measures a person's blood oxygen saturation level, and require workers to take such readings regularly. And with telemedicine, unwell workers can be attended to promptly, she said.

“The Taskforce is focused on getting its job done. Altogether, they are looking after about 400,000 migrant workers, bigger than the size of two Ang Mo Kio GRCs,” Teo added.

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