From Friday, rostered routine testing no longer required for most workers except those in healthcare, eldercare, pre-school, some essential services sectors
SINGAPORE: Many of the sectors that are now required to conduct rostered routine testing for COVID-19 will no longer have to do so from Friday , said the Ministry of Health on Wednesday.
Currently, those who need to test regularly include border frontline workers, COVID-19 frontline workers, healthcare and eldercare workers, those working with children under 12, dormitory-dwelling workers, transport workers and those in essential services as well as service industries such as retail staff.
Rostered routine testing was first introduced in dormitories and higher risk workplaces in August 2020, and was expanded to cover more higher-risk work settings over time. "The high transmissibility and shorter incubation period of the Omicron variant have also meant a reduction in the effectiveness of RRT in containing community transmission," said MOH.
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