MPs have also filed questions on the revamped Gifted Education Programme.
Parliament House in Singapore. According to the order paper released on Friday, MPs asked if students affected by the Mobile Guardian app incident were receiving the necessary help.
Some also asked for an update on the incident, including if steps are being taken to avoid similar incidents and if there would be a review of the use of technology by students. Amir Hamza managed to enter Singapore because he used a passport with a name different from what was in the country’s security databases, the Ministry of Home Affairs said last month.
MP Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim wanted to know about the rules governing the use of foreign worker dormitories for events involving speakers or religious preachers, while NMP Neil Parekh Nimil Rajnikant wanted to know about the penalties in place to deal with dormitory owners when such incidents occur.Questions filed on mpox included requests for an update on the virus and the local situation, as well as border and social management measures.
MP Hany Soh wanted to know about the applicable precautions and lessons that have been learned from Singapore’s effort against the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, Singapore has not detected any clade 1 infection. All 14 mpox cases in the country so far this year have been of the less severe clade 2 subtype.
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