Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates

[lee_yl]

ngl2010\" post_id=\"1968302\" time=\"1585047842\" user_id=\"40978:

lee_yl\" post_id=\"1968297\" time=\"1585045882\" user_id=\"17023:

[quote=starlight1968sg post_id=1968207 time=1584974170 user_id=14025]Quite disturbed to read that many imported cases were asymptomatic before boarding

Yesterday, I was taken aback too when I read that 9 in 10 of the imported cases, did not show symptoms, like fever, when they pass through the checkpoints. Only days later, when these people started feeling unwell then they went to see a doctor did they get detected.

Earlier I read on ST, something like telling us not to worry as many imported cases are stopped at the airport checkpoints and straight away being sent to NCID !?

Are they doing the swab at Changi airport now? But I understand it is not foolproof also as they can swab wrong part or the virus is not a lot yet to be able to get detected.[/quote]Newspapers never report that, only mention that 9 out of 10 imported cases somehow managed to pass undetected through the border checks (thermal scans).

I think swab tests if have, are conducted only on selected passengers who display some cough / flu / fever symptoms upon arrival.

[lee_yl]

phtthp\" post_id=\"1968310\" time=\"1585052297\" user_id=\"35251:

zac's mum\" post_id=\"1968305\" time=\"1585050213\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=1968305 time=1585050213 user_id=53606]***Breaking news: all centre-based tuition and enrichment classes to be suspended***

[U]All entertainment venues in Singapore to close, gatherings outside work and school limited to 10 people, as fight against Covid-19 ramps up[/u]
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/all-entertainment-venues-in-singapore-to-close-gatherings-outside-work-and-school?xtor=CS3-18&utm_source=STiPhone&utm_medium=share&utm_term=2020-03-24%2019%3A03%3A20

Hi all,

Based on above link, may I clarify?

Did i interpret (after reading) correctly that, starting wef from tonight Tuesday 24 March,

ALL tuition centre have to stop (suspend) tuition lessons, regardless of which tuition subject,

for All (primary, Secondary, Junior College) students,

including

even those
P6 students taking PSLE or
16 year old Secondary school students taking O-level exam, or
18 year old JC2 students taking A-level exam, in this global crisis year-at-turn-of-a-new-decade (2020) ?[/quote]

Any mention since enrichment centres will be closed from Thurs onwards till end April, who is going to pay for the course fees? The enrichment centres or parents?

[6thisnthat9]

Agree, safer for everyone this way

[6thisnthat9]

lee_yl\" post_id=\"1968323\" time=\"1585056186\" user_id=\"17023:

phtthp\" post_id=\"1968310\" time=\"1585052297\" user_id=\"35251:

[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=1968305 time=1585050213 user_id=53606]***Breaking news: all centre-based tuition and enrichment classes to be suspended***

[U]All entertainment venues in Singapore to close, gatherings outside work and school limited to 10 people, as fight against Covid-19 ramps up[/u]
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/all-entertainment-venues-in-singapore-to-close-gatherings-outside-work-and-school?xtor=CS3-18&utm_source=STiPhone&utm_medium=share&utm_term=2020-03-24%2019%3A03%3A20

Hi all,

Based on above link, may I clarify?

Did i interpret (after reading) correctly that, starting wef from tonight Tuesday 24 March,

ALL tuition centre have to stop (suspend) tuition lessons, regardless of which tuition subject,

for All (primary, Secondary, Junior College) students,

including

even those
P6 students taking PSLE or
16 year old Secondary school students taking O-level exam, or
18 year old JC2 students taking A-level exam, in this global crisis year-at-turn-of-a-new-decade (2020) ?

Any mention since enrichment centres will be closed from Thurs onwards till end April, who is going to pay for the course fees? The enrichment centres or parents?[/quote]Affecting businesses inclu tuition centres, will there be some package to help these businesses so that parents don't need to pay for them

[FantasyLandDreams]

Saw on fb page of a few tuition centres that they will switch to zoom online lessons. No mention of refund. I guess we have to call up tomorrow to confirm, probably really ‘hotline’ tomorrow.

[phtthp]

lee_yl\" post_id=\"1968323\" time=\"1585056186\" user_id=\"17023:

zac's mum\" post_id=\"1968305\" time=\"1585050213\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=1968305 time=1585050213 user_id=53606]***Breaking news: all centre-based tuition and enrichment classes to be suspended***

[U]All entertainment venues in Singapore to close, gatherings outside work and school limited to 10 people, as fight against Covid-19 ramps up[/u]
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/all-entertainment-venues-in-singapore-to-close-gatherings-outside-work-and-school?xtor=CS3-18&utm_source=STiPhone&utm_medium=share&utm_term=2020-03-24%2019%3A03%3A20

Any mention since enrichment centres will be closed from Thurs onwards till end April, who is going to pay for the course fees? The enrichment centres or parents?[/quote]

Jialut !

this tightening of government covid virus rule come at an unfortunate timing, because
Mid-year exam SA1 for P6 students is held in the first week of May, right after labour day 1st May.
And this ban or suspension of tuition, end on April 30 month-end.
And many P6 students rely on SA1 mid-year-exam results to apply for DSA, into Secondary schools

Another question is,
for those big tuition centre that got hundreds of students concurrently attending tuition lessons at the same time on week-end Saturday and Sunday nine am morning until late evening, lessons held in different classroom
eg. Wang lao shi Chinese tuition centre,
can understand if they were to suspend lessons, until April 30

But how about small tuition centre, those that got less than 10 students attending, eg. only got 5 or 6 P6 students attending tuition ? still suspend, or can continue ?

Who dare to take such risk ?

if take risk,

if any P6 student or any other level student is caught having virus and the contact tracing is traced back to your tuition centre, can say \"bye bye\" to your operational license for tuition centre.

Singapore is very strict!

Just like what happened recently to those working fellow having virus, who are on LOA, supposedlyto stay at home, but instead they wandered around, spread around. In the end, MOM withdrew their Work permit, cannot come back to Singapore anymore

[phtthp]

FantasyLandDreams\" post_id=\"1968330\" time=\"1585058341\" user_id=\"105816:

Saw on fb page of a few tuition centres that they will switch to zoom online lessons. No mention of refund. I guess we have to call up tomorrow to confirm, probably really ‘hotline’ tomorrow.

Even if tuition centre were to give e-learning, the effect is VERY different from classroom learning, face to face

for example

During Chinese Comprehension lessons,

if a P6 student don't understand why laoshi give this \"li jie wen da\" answer, straightaway, inside the classroom at Wang lao shi, student can raise up his hand, ask and clarify with tuition teacher on the spot, \"Sorry, Teacher, i don't quite understand, why is the li jie wen da Comprehension answer for question #3, has to be answered in this way ? \"

But via e-learning, if child dont know, don't understand, how to verify ?

Anyway, parents pay tuition centre, is to have classromm learning face to face for their kids, not pay fees for their children to learn e-learning.

E-learning :
parents can accept, if primary schools conduct e-learning. In schools, Yes, parents can accept e-learning

But at tuition centre, No, don't think parents welcome the idea of e-learning
might as well go Popular bookshop, buy an Assessment book, let their child practise at home, instead of attend tuition centre, waste $ [pay a few hundred dollars, per Term] and time travelling up and down, to and fro to centre, just for e-learning?

[Cloud Cloud]

phtthp\" post_id=\"1968332\" time=\"1585059003\" user_id=\"35251:

FantasyLandDreams\" post_id=\"1968330\" time=\"1585058341\" user_id=\"105816:

Saw on fb page of a few tuition centres that they will switch to zoom online lessons. No mention of refund. I guess we have to call up tomorrow to confirm, probably really ‘hotline’ tomorrow.

Even if tuition centre were to give e-learning, the effect is VERY different from classroom learning, face to face

for example

During Chinese Comprehension lessons,

if a P6 student don't understand why laoshi give this \"li jie wen da\" answer, straightaway, inside the classroom at Wang lao shi, student can ask, clarify with tuition teacher on the spot.

But via e-learning, if child dont know, don't understand, how to verify ?

Anyway, parents pay tuition centre, is to have classromm learning face to face for their kids, not pay fees for their children to learn e-learning.

E-learning :
parents can accept, if primary schools conduct e-learning. In schools, Yes, parents can accept e-learning

But at tuition centre, No, don't think parents welcome the idea of e-learning
might as well go Popular bookshop, buy an Assessment book, let their child practise at home, instead of attend tuition centre, waste $ and time travelling up and down, to and fro to centre, just for e-learning

Agree that e-learning cannot replace face to face learning. If they extend the suspension beyond April, I think I will cancel the classes. I will just buy the notes and teach.

[phtthp]

Schootopia\" post_id=\"1968334\" time=\"1585059252\" user_id=\"143961:

.. home tuition - lowest risk, no impact, max attention.

Still the best.

half truth

that day, some one told me 2 sisters [one older, one younger] went for private tuition.
The tutor's Mother-in-law, was coughing badly.
In the end, after tuition lesson was over, the 2 sisters went home. One do not feel well.
In the end, school told both sisters, to stay at home.

lesson, to learn ?

next time, before anyone go to private tutor's house, ask them
who else inside the house, besides the tutor ?
some one inside the house, was on LOA. In this case, the mother-in-law

[phtthp]

Schootopia\" post_id=\"1968337\" time=\"1585060054\" user_id=\"143961:

phtthp\" post_id=\"1968336\" time=\"1585059585\" user_id=\"35251:

[quote=Schootopia post_id=1968334 time=1585059252 user_id=143961].. home tuition - lowest risk, no impact, max attention.

Still the best.

half truth

that day, some one told me 2 sisters [one older, one younger] went for private tuition.
The tutor's Mother-in-law, was coughing badly.
In the end, after lesson was over, the 2 sisters went home. One do not feel well.
In the end, school told both sisters, to stay at home.

lesson, to learn ?

next time, before anyone go to private tutor's house, ask them
who else inside the house, besides the tutor ?

.. Was referring to private 1-to-1 tuition where tutor goes to student's place.

... scenario described applies to those who go to tutor's place for lessons, if there is someone else at tutor's place.[/quote]provided,

the student's parents welcome you to go to their house, to teach