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SINGAPORE: An eighth foreign worker dormitory, Cochrane Lodge 2, has been classified as an isolation area to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The dormitory in Sembawang was declared an isolation area under the Infectious Diseases Law, according to a notice from the Ministry of Health (MS) in the Government Gazette.
The notice went into effect on Monday (April 13).
The insulated facilities at Cochrane Lodge 2 are Blocks A, B, C, D, and E at 49 Admiralty Road West.
On Monday, eight more cases of COVID-19 were linked to the group at Cochrane Lodge 2, which now has 25 cases.
Cochrane Lodge 2 is the last bedroom to be declared a seclusion area, after Singapore experienced an increase in the number of newly linked bedroom cases of COVID-19.
Cochrane Lodge One bedroom view. (Screenshot: Google Maps)
On April 5, two foreign worker dormitories, the S11 dormitory in Punggol and the Westlite Toh Guan dormitory, were listed as isolation areas.
On Monday, 222 new cases were linked to the cluster in bedroom S11 @ Punggol, which now has a total of 586 cases.
Eight additional cases were linked to the group in the Westlite Toh Guan dorm on Monday, which has a total of 84 confirmed cases.
READ: Living conditions in bedroom S11, Westlite Toh Guan bedrooms have ‘stabilized’: Migrant Workers Center
The Toh Guan dormitory was declared an isolation area on April 6. It houses about 4,500 foreign workers. As of Monday, Toh Guan Dormitory has 67 confirmed cases, with 22 new cases linked to the facility.
On April 9, two blocks at Sungei Tengah Lodge on Old Choa Chu Kang Road were declared isolation areas. Eight more blocks were added to the notice the same day.
The dormitory, which has 10 residential blocks and can accommodate up to 25,000 workers, is one of the largest worker dormitories in Singapore.
In total, Sungei Tengah Lodge has 157 COVID-19 cases, after 77 more cases were linked to the cluster on Monday.
The Sungei Tengah Lodge workers’ dormitory in Old Choa Chu Kang Road was declared an isolation area after an increase in COVID-19 cases there.
READ: COVID-19: Sungei Tengah Lodge declared an isolation area under the Infectious Diseases Act
On April 9, the Tampines dormitory became the fifth foreign worker dormitory to be declared an isolation area.
As of Monday, there were 53 confirmed cases in the Tampines dorm.
On April 11, Acacia Lodge and Cochrane Lodge 1 were the sixth and seventh bedrooms to be declared areas of isolation.
As of Monday, there were 29 cases at Acacia Lodge and 39 cases at Cochrane Lodge 1.
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