On July 13, 2020, a migrant worker’s status on the SGWorkPass mobile application turned red, indicating that he is not allowed to go to work, but it was also stated in the app that he was “cleared” of Covid-19, his employer said. — TODAY pic
Under regulations by the Building and Construction Authority , all migrant workers must go through periodic pooled testing — where the swab samples of several individuals are mixed into one as though they were one sample. A negative result from this would indicate that all individuals in the sample are likely to not have Covid-19, and is less resource-intensive compared to individual testing.
On June 27, BCA then notified the employer that the worker would need to undergo a serological test on June 29. However, neither the worker nor the employer were informed of the test result. As a result of this new status, the employer spent the next few days seeking answers from BCA, MOH and MOM, but no one could explain the discrepancy, he said.
In all, it took more than a week before the employer could get a definitive answer that the worker is cleared to go to work, but he could not work for five days in the meantime.Responding to queries from TODAY, MOH said that a “discharge memo” given to recovered Covid-19 cases was not issued earlier to the worker “due to an administrative error”.
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