The Workers’ Party will still meet the people.
According to TODAYonline, the Workers’ Party (WP) will continue holding physical meet-the-people sessions in its constituencies, despite the spike in COVID-19 community cases in recent days.
The WP controls two Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs), Aljunied and Sengkang, and the Hougang Single Member Constituency (SMC).
The announcement came after the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) suspended its meet-the-people sessions (MPS) to “minimise exposure of residents and volunteers”, and its Members of Parliament (MPs) took to virtual means for further constituent engagement.
However, this doesn’t mean that the WP will give infection risks a blank cheque. Safety precautions will be elevated, and residents are asked to contact their MPs by email whenever possible.
The continuation of the sessions, meanwhile, is to cater to “senior citizens and elderly residents, including residents who cannot connect online.”
Aw, that warms the cockles of our hearts.
House visits will also be suspended until further notice to further minimise COVID-19 risks, according to the party. You can read its full statement below.
New Measures
The announcement came in the wake of a host of new measures implemented to curb rising numbers of COVID-19 infections, announced on last night (4 May) by the multi-ministry task force on the pandemic.
These include limiting the number of participants at social gatherings to five from eight, restricting the proportion of employees allowed to work in the office to 50%, and closing indoor gyms and other fitness studios.
Fitness venues are targeted because they are enclosed environments where people are often in close proximity without mask use.
Sorry about your gainz. Fitness is a mindset.
TraceTogether-only check-ins will also be required at high-traffic venues like malls and schools from 17 May, two weeks ahead of its original implementation date of 1 June.
Oof if your phone battery dies, then.
These measures became necessary partly because of the new COVID-19 variants that seem to have gained a foothold in Singapore, according to Minister for Education Lawrence Wong.
“The new variant strains have higher attack rates, more infections, larger clusters than before. We tried to ringfence through contact tracing, but we must assume that there are still hidden cases out there in the community,” he commented.
However, he noted that public health experts have assessed today’s situation to be akin to the initial stages of the pandemic last year, rather than when the circuit breaker became necessary in April.
Another set of circuit breaker measures are therefore not necessary for now, according to his announcement.
I don’t know about you, but that “for now” sounds really ominous right now.
Feature Image: Facebook (The Workers’ Party)
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