Earlier today, a proposed law was debated in the parliament to stop parties of social gatherings of any amount of participants in private and public areas.
The proposed law will cover private parties, friends or family gatherings who do not stay together, public areas such as void decks and parks etc
Meaning, if the law is passed, no one will be allowed to have parties at home.
The proposed law will be temporal and last for 6 months.
Enforcement officers will be empowered to take action against individuals or businesses.
From today, officers will be seen to discourage gatherings in public and loitering, they will also be ensuring that no one will be consuming or eating in eating places.
Breaching safe-distancing rules may be jailed up to six months and/or fined up to S$10,000.
” Members of public are to comply with the elevated safe distancing measures in the common property of public and private housing estates, parks and other shared spaces. Non-compliance is an offence. Enforcement officers from the Agencies will be conducting compliance inspections and stern actions will be taken against any member of public found in breach of safe distancing measures. “
According to the latest media release, a student from Tampines North Primary School has been tested positive for the coronavirus.
The school’s principal sends a letter to all parents and stated that the student’s last visit to the school is 27 March 2020.
The student is a close contact of a confirmed case. The student was out from school for 7 days ever since the student’s parent was tested as a confirmed case on the 30 March 2020.
According to an advisory posted by the early childhood development agency, a teacher staff from Little Gems Preschool (Ang Mo Kio) has been tested positive for the Coronavirus.
The following is an advisory posted on Early Childhood Development Agency.
TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF LITTLE GEMS PRESCHOOL PTE LTD AT 3 ANG MO KIO STREET 62 #01-09, LINK@AMK, SINGAPORE 569139 (“CENTRE”)
The Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) was informed on 4 April 2020 that teaching staff at Little Gems Preschool Pte Ltd at 3 Ang Mo Kio Street 62 #01-09, LINK@AMK, Singapore 569139 (“the Centre”) tested positive for COVID-19. She was last in the Centre on Tuesday, 31 March 2020.
As an added precautionary measure, ECDA has directed that the Centre be temporarily closed from 5 April 2020 to 14 April 2020. This covers the 14-day incubation period as the staff was last in the Centre on 31 March 2020.
In addition, all affected staff and children will be placed on a Leave of Absence during the closure period. Barring any new developments, the Centre will resume limited service provision on Wednesday, 15 April 2020, to serve the group of parents who are working in essential services and are unable to extend their alternative care arrangements beyond the closure period. Contact tracing is ongoing.
MOH reported 66 new cases tested positive for the coronavirus (April 6), two other clusters have been identified as well.
65 are local cases, 1 is imported
35 cases are linked to existing clusters, out of the 35 24 of them are linked to the foreign worker dormitory, earlier today, a witness told Singapore Uncensored that two ambulances were seen rushing out of the dormitory.
The relevant teams are conducting contact tracing for the remaining 30 cases.
Two new clusters
Little Gems Preschool at Ang Mo Kio Street 62
Kranji Lodge.
The total number of cases is at 1,375.
Links to previous cases
One of the newly confirmed cases (Case 1335) is linked to two previous cases (Cases 1182 and 1294), forming a new cluster at Little Gems Preschool (3 Ang Mo Kio Street 62).
Three of the earlier confirmed cases (Cases 880, 1190 and 1241) have now been linked to a new cluster at Kranji Lodge (12 Kranji Road).
25 additional cases are linked to the cluster at S11 Dormitory @ Punggol (2 Seletar North Link), which has a total of 88 confirmed cases2 now.
One additional case is linked to the cluster at Westlite Toh Guan dormitory (18 Toh Guan Road East), which has a total of 29 confirmed cases3 now.
Six additional cases are linked to the cluster at Toh Guan Dormitory (19A Toh Guan Road East), which has a total of 14 confirmed cases now
Two additional cases are linked to the cluster at Sungei Tengah Lodge (500 Old Choa Chu Kang Road), which has a total of six confirmed cases now
One additional case is linked to the cluster at a dormitory at 55 Sungei Kadut Loop, which has a total of four cases now (868, 972, 974 and 1356).
Four additional cases are linked to the cluster at Tampines Dormitory (2 Tampines Place), which has a total of nine cases now
One additional case is linked to the cluster at Cochrane Lodge II (49 Admiralty Road West), which has a total of four cases now
Two additional cases are linked to the cluster at a construction site at Project Glory (50 Market Street), which has a total of 16 confirmed cases now
One additional case is linked to the cluster at a construction site at 6 Battery Road, which has a total of five cases now
12 additional cases are linked to the cluster at Mustafa Centre (145 Syed Alwi Road), which has a total of 40 confirmed cases4 now.
Two additional cases are linked to the cluster at Keppel Shipyard (51 Pioneer Sector 1), which has a total of nine cases now
One additional case is linked to the cluster at Ce La Vi (1 Bay Front Avenue), which has a total of five cases now (Cases 540, 807, 856, 1094 and 1266).
According to a study done by researchers from the University of Hong Kong, the coronavirus can survive on a few surfaces such as steel or plastic for up to 4-7 days.
But it can survive on the exterior layer of the mask for a week.
Here is the full list on how long the virus can survive
Tissues Paper – 3 Hours
Wood and Cloth – Disappeared the next day
Glass and banknotes – 4 Days
Plastic and stainless steel – 4 to 7 Days
Exterior layer of face mask – 7 Days
Do Not Touch exterior of the face mask
if you touch the exterior layer that filtered out the virus, your hands might touch your eyes and chances are contaminated hands can transmit the virus.
The researchers did not indicate which type of Face mask was used to perform the test, it is believed that it is the regular surgical facemask.
