SINGAPORE - While parents are encouraged to keep their children at home in the coming weeks, as telecommuting is now the default, pre-schools and student care centres will remain open to support parents who need to work, Education Minister Chan Chun Sing said on Sunday (May 16). We understand that many parents are essential workers who need to work. They will require services in the schools and childcare centres to help them during this period, and we will make all efforts to help parents and families who require such services, he said at a virtual press conference.
In a press release, MOE also said that schools will remain open for students who require additional support. In particular, parents working in essential services or who are unable to secure alternative care arrangements may approach their children s primary schools for assistance.
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2 new Covid-19 clusters in S pore, including Learning Point tuition centre with 5 kids
Of these, six are airport staff employed at Terminals 1 and 3.
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They are a 27-year-old who works in a retail store at Terminal 3, a 29-year-old who works as an IT support engineer in Terminal 1, two Certis Cisco employees aged 28 and 67, and two Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers aged 51 and 57.
The other seven are contacts of patients in the cluster.
They comprise two cleaners at Kopitiam Square Sengkang, another cleaner at Robinson 77 in the Central Business District, the principal of a language school, a retail staff at Ngee Ann City, an administrative worker in the Ministry of Manpower and a 91-year-old housewife.
Both of them, aged 8 and 12, are pupils of St Andrew s Junior School and took the same school bus as a pupil who attended enrichment classes at Learning Point and was later confirmed to have Covid-19.
This brings the total number of patients in the Learning Point cluster to nine, after a 50-year-old woman who works as a tutor there was confirmed to have Covid-19 on Wednesday.
The remaining two children are a 6-year-old boy who is a pupil at Palm View Primary School and a 7-year-old boy who is a pupil at Yio Chu Kang Primary School.
Both cases are linked to the operating theatre nurse who worked at Sengkang General Hospital.