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Assessing the risk of reinfections in dormitories
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Westlite Mandai dormitory residents taking their temperature and checking in using SafeEntry last month. While it is not possible to stamp out fully the possibility of reinfection clusters, workers are now more resilient.
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While it is the number of Covid-19 cases in the community that has been going up in recent weeks, the risk of clusters being formed in migrant worker dormitories has remained, as apparent when a group of Westlite Woodlands dormitory residents tested positive last month.
On April 19, a 35-year-old Bangladeshi construction supervisor was found to have been infected, and two days later, so was a roommate of his.
