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Emphasis should shift from hospital to community care in taming healthcare spending: Ong Ye Kung
Rising healthcare costs cannot be allowed to cripple our future , said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung.ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
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Mr Ng, 50, a private-hire driver, said: There is so much fake news these days, who knows if it s real or fake any more.
It was only after he received SMS messages from the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Health Promotion Board on Friday morning that he knew it was a fact.
MOH said on Thursday that all residents of Block 506 Hougang Avenue 8 will be tested for Covid-19 at the void deck of the block on Friday and Saturday, after some residents of the 12-storey block were found to have tested positive for Covid-19.
This was the first time an entire block of residents - 116 households in all - have undergone mandatory Covid-19 testing as a precautionary measure.
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Well, not really, unless you have a working time machine – in which case, may we borrow it? No, we’re talking about the Kampong Lorong Buangkok Tour Experience. It’s a two-hour tour that brings you to Singapore’s last remaining kampong or village.
Get a blast from the past with as you visit an actual
kampung house and see how people live without the modern conveniences that many of us take for granted, just like they used to in the old days.
This is a good way to see what the real
The tests will be available until May 16.
In a statement issued on Wednesday (May 5), MOH and the Health Promotion Board (HPB) - the national agency supporting Covid-19 testing - said this was a bid to further ramp up testing capabilities after long queues formed on Monday at four designated regional screening centres.
Hundreds had turned up at the centres - in Ang Mo Kio, Jurong East, Pasir Ris and Sin Ming - for a government-funded polymerase chain reaction test, extended to patients and visitors who were at TTSH from April 18, as well as those who were at public places visited by cases during their infectious period.