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SINGAPORE - Two floating accommodation facilities parked in a restricted area at Tanjong Pagar Terminal will house healthy foreign workers from this week.
Each can take a few hundred people, and be organised to achieve safe distancing, said Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan, after a visit to one of the facilities on Sunday (April 12).
Meals can be prepared off-site and delivered to the cabins to minimise inter-mingling, he added in a Facebook post.
He said coronavirus clusters in foreign worker dormitories are a grave concern, and efforts are being made to reduce the density within each dormitory.
"In China, transmission within families has been shown to be a major driver. Each dorm is practically a huge family unit, hence our concern," said Mr Khaw, who is also Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure.
While building new dormitories will take time, making use of such floating accommodation facilities - typically used by those in offshore and marine industries - was another solution, he said.
Workers can have fresh air at the open air deck to exercise an hour a day, he added in his post. There is also a medical facility that can attend to workers who are ill.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...njong-pagar-terminal-to-house-foreign-workers
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