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SINGAPORE – Migrant workers have moved from their temporary housing facility in Bukit Merah and back to their dormitories.
The latest group of workers left the Housing Board blocks in Redhill Close on Wednesday (December 30) morning after having been there since April.
“As we move into phase three of the safe reopening of our economy, the need to temporarily house healthy migrant workers in Redhill has also come to an end,” Labor MP Melvin Yong said on Facebook.
The 21 HDB blocks in Redhill Close housed healthy migrant workers employed in essential services such as cleaning and maintenance.
They were moved there, as the spread of the coronavirus in the dormitories of foreign workers became a concern earlier in the year.
The Redhill Close site was one of 36 unused state properties that were converted into temporary housing for migrant workers.
Among the locations were 17 former schools, including the former Innova Junior College on Champions Way, the former Serangoon JC on Upper Serangoon Road, and the former Tampines JC on Tampines Avenue 9.
Nine vacant factories, tents at NSRCC Kranji, and nine other vacant state properties were converted for the same purpose.
On Wednesday, Mr. Yong added that he spoke with the agencies that run the Redhill Close site.
These agencies had faced “immense challenges” as they worked to provide migrant workers with data connectivity, a minimart, an in-house clinic and hairdressing services.
“These were just some of the amenities they had to provide almost overnight,” he added.
Mr. Yong, who is also a deputy from Radin Mas SMC, thanked his residents for welcoming migrant workers into the neighborhood.
He also expressed his gratitude to Redhill’s grassroots leaders and various public sector agencies involved in managing the site.
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