SINGAPORE: Three more foreign worker dormitories in Singapore have been gazetted as isolation areas to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Tuas View Dormitory, Shaw Lodge Dormitory and North Coast Lodge were declared as isolation areas under the Infectious Diseases Act, according to notices by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the Government Gazette.
AdvertisementAdvertisementThe notices came into effect on Friday (Apr 17).
A total of 12 foreign worker dormitories have now been gazetted as isolation areas.
[h=3]INTERACTIVE: All the COVID-19 clusters at dorms and construction sites[/h]On Thursday, 30 additional cases were linked to the cluster at Tuas View Dormitory, which has a total of 73 confirmed cases.
AdvertisementAdvertisementShaw Lodge Dormitory currently has 28 confirmed cases, with four additional cases reported on Thursday.
And an additional eight cases were linked to the cluster at North Coast Lodge, which now has a total of 26 cases.
On Thursday, Singapore reported 728 new COVID-19 cases, with 654 cases from work permit holders residing in dormitories.
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