It’s been 11 months since the COVID-19 pandemic hit dormitories across Singapore, resulting in a months-long lockdown. Talking Point speaks to dorm residents and gets them to film what life is like inside these confines now, to see if things have changed. At some dorms, communal eating facilities and playgrounds are still out of bounds. Beyond going out to work, workers have to spend most of their time in their rooms, with only about 3 hours allowed outside on their day off at recreation centres. Kong Chee Min, the CEO of Centurion Corporation, in charge of Westlite Accommodation dormitories, maintains that these restrictive measures are important to reduce crowding from co-mingling of dormitory workers, effectively mitigating infection rates. Martin Koh, deputy chief of ACE GROUP from Singapore Manpower Ministry says that plans have been made to increase the frequency of visits to recreation centres. On top of that, 7 Quick Build Dorms have been launched, which improve the current living conditions of workers. More dorms will be built over the next course of the year, increasing the number of bed spaces to about 25,000. ALSO WATCH: How Are Singapore's Migrant Workers Coping With COVID-19 Restrictions, One Year On? | Talking Point https://youtu.be/azZoksSWL5I Tackling Covid-19 Among Singapore's Foreign Workers | Talking Point | Full Episode https://youtu.be/N5X668CPWfI Life In Isolation: When A Migrant Worker Gets COVID-19 In Singapore https://youtu.be/Qis6_86DlVU Life In Isolation: Inside Singapore's Foreign Worker Dormitories During COVID-19 https://youtu.be/wq-dygv456w Life After COVID-19: Migrant Workers Stay On Cruise Ship & In Flats https://youtu.be/sM2y1kM85Y8 Battling COVID-19 In Factory-Converted Dormitories in Singapore https://youtu.be/8HU_pIBkOLY For more, SUBSCRIBE to CNA INSIDER! https://cna.asia/insideryoutubesub Follow CNA INSIDER on: Instagram: https://ift.tt/2C3sZiR Facebook: https://ift.tt/2PPEuNA Website: https://cna.asia/cnainsider
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