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SINGAPORE – Starting December 1, all schools will require students to use the token or the TraceTogether app on their mobile phones to sign in, to help track contacts.
December will be a grace period, however, in which scanning of NRICs or student passes will still be allowed.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) guidelines are in line with broader changes to regulations that have recently been implemented. It’s already been announced that entry to places like restaurants, workplaces, and shopping centers will require the TraceTogether app or token by the end of December.
The current digital record system, SafeEntry, will no longer be sufficient.
The MOE encouraged parents and students to collect and carry their TraceTogether tokens, as students may not have access to their mobile phones at all times.
Although students without the token or app will not be denied entry to schools, they may not be able to participate in activities such as outside co-curricular activities or learning trips, where students are taken on trips outside of school. .
He promised that school staff will help students transition to using TraceTogether.
The TraceTogether application and the token work by exchanging short-distance Bluetooth signals with other nearby TraceTogether applications or tokens.
This proximity data, which is encrypted and stored for 25 days before being automatically deleted, enables faster contact tracing.
More than 50 percent of the population is in the TraceTogether program now, with long lines on October 24 at some of the 38 community centers and clubs where tokens are distributed.
Education Minister Lawrence Wong, co-chair of the multidisciplinary working group addressing Covid-19, had said last month that a 70 percent acceptance rate for the TraceTogether app is one of the conditions that could help Singapore to get to phase three. from its reopening, under which groups of up to eight people can meet and other restrictions were relaxed.
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