Government to look into raising housing standards for migrant workers: Teo

Singapore

THE government will look into how housing standards for migrant workers can be raised after the novel coronavirus outbreak is brought under control, Singapore's manpower minister has said, even as she acknowledged that a focus on rooming arrangements on their own may not prevent a recurrence.

"The virus respects no housing type, no nationality nor occupation. We will therefore need to relook how everyone interacts with one another at home and at our workplaces. Even the way we socialise will have to change. We will need a focus on public education. So the same for our migrant workers," said Josephine Teo said in a ministerial statement in Parliament on Monday.