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Now you can choose from a book or toy in every Happy Meal®! From Cressida Cowell, author and illustrator of the ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ series comes the new ‘Treetop Twins Wilderness Adventures’ book series! With 12 books in the collection, you’ll explore distant lands and learn about different creatures across the globe from the past and present, including endangered and extinct animals! Develop a deeper love for reading as a family and bond over the fun of story time when you choose from a book or toy in every Happy Meal®.
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New design available every Thursday, 11am.
Goldfish
Unicorn
Flamingo
Tiger
Rally Baja Crawler
Ion Thresher
Astana Hotto
Hyperfin
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IKEA is keeping all stores and restaurants closed from Tuesday, 7 April 2020 until further notice. IKEA’s online services will be operating as usual. Due to high demand some orders may be delayed.
Make home feel extra special this Raya with IKEA
As we dive into Singapore’s extended circuit breaker and choose to #staysafestayhome, making home count is more important than ever as we spend so much time together.
We may not be able to visit our family and friends during the upcoming Hari Raya celebrations, but we can still keep the spirit alive by staying connected with our loved ones! Though apart, unique memories can still be made together, be it breaking fast around the table simultaneously via video conferencing, or taking time to sit down and have heart to heart conversations over the phone with your loved ones.
Whatever you need, IKEA has all the essentials to make your home feel extra special this Raya!
Bring great family experience and fun conversations to the table
Have some time? Grab the handy RÅSKOG Stool (Usual price: $29.90; Offer price: $19.90) and huddle with your family at any corner of your home to have heart to heart conversations. Or enjoy a meal together with the sturdy LISABO / JANINGE Table and 4 chairs dining set (Usual price: $419; Offer price: $369)
Other great offers also await from now till 17 May, check out IKEA.sg/raya for more details. While stocks last.
SINGAPORE: A new mobile swab station (MSS) will make it safer and faster for healthcare workers to test migrant workers for COVID-19 at dormitories.
The MSS is a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) cross country ambulance mounted at the rear, with a transparent booth with gloved holes for the tester’s hands. The tester sits inside the ambulance, while the migrant worker stands outside.
The MSS is developed by the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), the Army’s Maintenance and Engineering Support and ST Engineering.
The booth is identical to Singapore General Hospital’s Swab Assurance For Everyone (SG SAFE) system that is being used in the hospital’s emergency department to reduce risk of infection.
The ambulance is also fitted with a ventilation and filtration system that allows only clean air and droplets to enter the pressurised cabin. The transparent shield protects healthcare workers from contaminated droplets.
The MSS can also be deployed faster. It takes about 15 minutes to deploy, compared to the 30 minutes needed to set up the outdoor tents and tables typically used as testing facilities in many dormitories.
Since the MSS is essentially a vehicle, it can be re-deployed to different sites quicker, compared to packing up and loading the tents and tables in a separate vehicle.
A migrant worker being swab tested at the MSS. (Photo: MINDEF)
The mobile station can be set up and operated by three personnel: The driver, swab tester and another worker to collect the swab sample. The team said besides the driving, it is intuitive enough to be operated by non-SAF personnel.
One MSS, operational since Monday (May 11), has been deployed to three non-purpose-built dormitories, including factory-converted dormitories, construction temporary quarters and private residential premises.
The MSS’ high-touch points like the screen and gloves are disinfected in between patients, and it will undergo a full wipe-down at the end of the day. (Photo: MINDEF)
Whether more mobile swab stations will be deployed to more locations will depend on the operational needs of the inter-agency task force handling the outbreak in dormitories.
“As the inter-agency task force expands their swab operations to non-purpose- built dormitories, there is a need for swab operations to be set up at different sites on a daily basis,” the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) said on Wednesday.
National Development Minster Lawrence Wong announced on Tuesday that all 323,000 foreign workers staying in dorms will be tested to ensure they are virus-free before resuming work.
About 3,000 tests are currently being conducted each day in the dormitories.
MOBILE EXPRESS SCANNER
Besides the MSS, Army engineers have developed a mobile express scanner (MExS) to reduce the time needed for swab registration from four minutes to less than a minute.
Registration typically involves writing down a migrant worker’s particulars, like name, date of birth and foreign identification number, in three places: A swab test request form, swab sample manifest list, and sticker to be pasted on the sample vial.
A migrant worker scanning his work permit on the mobile express scanner. (Photo: MINDEF)
Instead, healthcare workers can use the MExS, a mobile phone scanner, to scan the worker’s work permit to automatically extract his particulars and store it in a secured central database. Swab labels can then printed and pasted on the forms and vials.
Since Saturday, 10 of such scanners have been deployed to 38 sites islandwide, covering about 2,000 patients.
A DSTA representative said there are plans to combine the two technologies.
“Our next step is to bring that registration counter into the cabin as well so that (fewer) people need to be outside and everything can be done within the cabin,” its head of capability development (wheeled vehicles) Sebastian Lim, 45, said.
MINDEF said the team is also working on two more MSS prototypes by end-June: a multi-utility vehicle (MUV, or large van) equipped with one swab station, and a 20-foot container equipped with three swab stations.
This allows the SAF to better support national requirements in the fight against COVID-19, it added.
“We want to be able to expand our options because they are different applications,” Mr Lim said. “The ambulance and MUV are very mobile. The containers can be used for a slightly longer deployment time with small booths to make it more efficient as a system.”
Still, Mr Lim said there is still room for improvement. “As we work with doctors discussing their workflow, they actually give a lot of suggestions on how we can reduce the workload and moving around,” he added.
DOCTOR LAUDS COMFORT
On the ground, medical swab team leader Captain (Dr) Ivan Low, 26, said the MSS’ air-conditioning and ergonomics make for a comfortable environment to work in.
The more sterile conditions inside mean healthcare workers only need to wear masks and gloves, as compared to full personal protective equipment (PPE) outdoors, such as gowns and face shields.
“My team feels much safer operating from within a clean environment,” CPT Low said. “This is made possible by the ventilation and filtration system which essentially transforms the cabin into a giant N95 mask.”
CPT Low said migrant workers he’s attended to seem “pleasantly surprised” with the MSS, adding that they feel the testing process is more efficient. “The vehicle does seem safer both for them and the healthcare worker,” he stated.
A 39-year-old woman was apprehended under the Mental Health Act yesterday (May 12) after a fight broke out between her and her husband, resulting in a smashed ashtray and injuries sustained by both parties.
The incident took place in the wee hours of the morning at Block 207C, Punggol Place, the police told AsiaOne.
Blood was splattered across the walls and floor outside the flat, as well as within the unit’s living room, a Lianhe Wanbao reporter observed. There was also a white t-shirt stained with blood at the scene.
A neighbour told the Chinese evening daily they started hearing sounds of an argument coming from the couple’s flat around midnight.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 675 new coronavirus cases in Singapore today (May 13). Out of these, the vast majority are cases involving work permit holders residing in dormitories and two are Singaporeans or Permanent Residents.
This brings the total number of cases to 25,346, with 3,851 patients discharged and 21 deaths.
MOH will share more details in its update later tonight.
For the latest updates on the coronavirus, visit here.
It is with great caution that the Government is studying whether to allow people to visit their relatives after June 1, when the circuit breaker measures are lifted.
“We recognise that many people would like to visit their family members,” said National Development Minister Lawrence Wong, who co-chairs the multi-ministry task force tackling the coronavirus outbreak.
“Many parents and grandparents miss their children and grandchildren,” he added, acknowledging that video calls or phone calls are not the same as being physically present. The authorities understand this desire to be physically connected again, he said.
“While we would like to allow them to see one another… we have to be quite cautious in moving on such a measure.
“Particularly when it comes to the elderly, because we all know that they are vulnerable, and if they were to catch the virus, the disease is potentially lethal for them.”
Mr Wong was speaking at a virtual press conference yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry announced 884 new cases in Singapore, taking its tally past 24,000. Three of the new cases are Singaporeans or permanent residents.
Mona Minkara’s east Asian travels begin as soon as her plane touches down at Singapore’s Changi Airport. A camera follows her every move.
Pulling her suitcase with one hand and proudly displaying her long white cane in the other, Minkara exits the arrivals terminal and asks staff for directions to ground transport.
Later, when transferring from a bus to a nearly empty MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) station, her cane strikes a line of raised tiles on the pavement. She pauses and glides her cane across the ridges.
“Oh, look at that, cane guides,” Minkara, who narrates her videos in real-time, says. “Whenever there’s a turn, these cane guides create a grid on the ground, so I know there is an option to turn.”
The tactile paving leads Minkara first to a lift-equipped with Braille buttons, and then down to the train platform.
Frustrated M1 users across Singapore continued to report Internet outages on Wednesday, more than 24 hours after the disruptions started, despite the telco announcing in an early morning update that it has completed its fibre system maintenance and all fibre services have been fully restored.
“If your fibre connection continues to be offline, do switch off and on your ONT (modem) and router to reconnect your devices,” M1 said at 6am on its <a href="
[13 May, 6am update] We have completed our fibre system maintenance and all fibre services have been fully restored. If…
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Teeny Ty / Fast & Furious Happy Meal® Toys Now Available!
The new toys may not be available at all McDonald’s outlets yet – check before placing your order!
IKEA is keeping all stores and restaurants closed from Tuesday, 7 April 2020 until further notice. IKEA’s online services will be operating as usual. Due to high demand some orders may be delayed.
