Chitchat 4 S’pore Expo halls occupied by Covid-19 patients, 6 more halls to be converted into isolation facilities soon: PM Lee

[bobby]

SINGAPORE — A total of 10 halls at Singapore Expo are being converted into temporary isolation facilities for Covid-19 patients, with four already completed and occupied, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in a Facebook post on Sunday (April 26).

Mr Lee said the other six halls would “come soon”, adding that “the Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to improvise and come up with innovative, workable solutions on the ground”.

In the post, Mr Lee cited TODAY’s report on how two halls at Singapore Expo, which can hold a combined 950 patients, were converted into a temporary isolation facility in just three days.

Other repurposed locations which will be used to house Covid-19 patients include: Changi Exhibition Centre, which can hold 2,800 patients, and Tanjong Pagar Terminal, which can hold 15,000 patients, Mr Lee said.

Medical staff from restructured and private hospitals have “stepped forward” to look after the patients in these facilities, he added.

"With many more Covid-19 cases, mostly mild, we urgently needed a solution to house the large numbers, and not let our hospitals get swamped," Mr Lee wrote.

"These community facilities allow our hospitals to focus on the more serious cases."

Singapore reported a total of 13,624 confirmed Covid-19 cases as of Sunday noon, the majority of which are work permit holders residing in foreign worker dormitories.

 

[bobby]

Guess who is paying for all these dorm upgrades ?

 

[Leongsam]

Why is this being done for a virus that is no worse than the flu? It wasn't done for H1N1.

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN whilst is good to build more beds to prepare for the needs it is also very depressing to see temporary grave-rike structures funeral parlours-rike building up KNN while people are still working and struggling hard to make a living at the same time KNN a very mismatched actions is happening everyday KNN

 

[CPTMiller]

Guess who is paying for all these dorm upgrades ?

Government is paying.
it is not our money.
Whatever we paid eg taxes to country belong to country now and controller is government

 

[laksaboy]

Very nice. Can convert to a 'short-time' hotel when the pandemic is over.

 

[LaoTze]

THEY GOT 20,000 BEDS NOW

THEY WILL NEED TO BUILD 5 TIMES AS MANY

EVEN THEN STILL NOT ENOUGH

WITH 400,000 STAYING IN DORMITORIES.

REMEMBER IN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS USA AND FRANCE, THOSE SAILORS GOT MORE SPACE AND BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS AND YET 50% INFECTION RATE .

DORMITORIES WITH 50% INFECTION RATE WILL BE 200,000
MORE LIKELY TO BE 80% INFECTION RATE

AH HA!

KICK THAT FUCKING INDIAN BAK KUT TEH LOVING ELECTED PRESIDENT OUT OF ISTANA

USE ISTANA GROUND TO BUILD TENT CITY AND MORTUARY FOR FOREIGN WORKERS


https://mothership.sg/2020/04/covid-19-isolation-facilities-capacity-singapore/

 

[JohnTan]

I still think infected serfs should be deported back to their home countries. They have adequate medical facilities to take care of them there.

 

[LaoTze]

I still think infected serfs should be deported back to their home countries. They have adequate medical facilities to take care of them there.

 

[Leongsam]

Most of us will be infected at some point because the virus is already very widespread. However because the disease is very mild most won't even know they had the virus.

 

[sweetiepie]

Most of us will be infected at some point because the virus is already very widespread. However because the disease is very mild most won't even know they had the virus.

KNN cham liao if rike this KNN do you think pap ministers will be infected ?KNN some of them met all the vulnerable criterias rike my uncle KNN if yes why are they still working hard to be erected since most of them will not survive and if no what is the best practices if they are not ministers KNN

 

[A Singaporean]

Singapore should start to consider using the Istana ground as field hospital.

 

[Chase]

Which event company is making money from renting the partitions?

 

[laksaboy]

Singapore should start to consider using the Istana ground as field hospital.

If you want proof of elitism in Sinkieland: Istana. Even the side gate along Sophia Road is closed.

 

[maxxi]

If you want proof of elitism in Sinkieland: Istana. Even the side gate along Sophia Road is closed.

Thats not the side gate.Its at Cavanegh rd side.services come thru here

 

[quidnunc]

Which event company is making money from renting the partitions?

Kingsmen, pico, any interior decorator can do it.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Kingsmen, pico, any interior decorator can do it.

All goes to the big boys. PICO is the frontrunner for the next site. MBS basement. Looks like they are expecting a lot of cases for banglas

 

[eatshitndie]

can 38 oxley hold 69 patients?

 

[mojito]

Very nice. Can convert to a 'short-time' hotel when the pandemic is over.

So small the bed. Provide wide-screen monitor and a box of tissue then may be consider.

 

[Leongsam]

Why all this fuss over a virus that is mild in the vast majority of those that catch the bug?