Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Prime Minister whether the Government has considered instituting mandatory or default opt-in cooling-off periods of a short duration for large, potentially anomalous transactions involving cross-border fund transfers, to allow for fund recovery in cases where victims become aware of the fraudulent nature of the scam relatively soon after they areContinue reading “PROPOSAL FOR OPT-IN DEFAULT COOLING-OFF PERIOD FOR CROSS-BORDER FUND TRANSFERS OF LARGE AMOUNTS TO PREVENT FRAUD”
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IMPLICATION OF NEW PROTOCOL FOR PCR TEST RESULTS FOR RECOVERED COVID-19 PATIENTS
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Health whether the protocol that disregards active polymerase chain reaction test results for recovered COVID-19 individuals, as long as their cycle threshold (CT) values are sufficiently high, is also applied to newly-detected (and especially asymptomatic) cases which may be at the beginning or tail end of their infection.Continue reading “IMPLICATION OF NEW PROTOCOL FOR PCR TEST RESULTS FOR RECOVERED COVID-19 PATIENTS”
PROPOSAL TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR BEREAVED FAMILIES TO OFFSET ELEVATED COVID-19 RELATED FUNERAL EXPENSES
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment in view of elevated costs for COVID-19 related funeral expenses, whether the Ministry is exploring providing some additional financial support for bereaved families to offset these costs. Ms Grace Fu Hai Yien: Funeral expenses would vary depending on the desired funeral arrangements for theContinue reading “PROPOSAL TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR BEREAVED FAMILIES TO OFFSET ELEVATED COVID-19 RELATED FUNERAL EXPENSES”
TRAINED MEDICAL PERSONNEL TO EXPLAIN NATURE OF POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION CYCLE THRESHOLD (CT) VALUES TO COVID-19 PATIENTS AND RELEASE CT VALUES TO PATIENTS
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Health (a) whether medical personnel are trained to explain the nature of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) cycle threshold (CT) values to COVID‐19 patients; and (b) whether it is in the standard operating procedures not to release the CT values to the COVID‐19 patients when such values areContinue reading “TRAINED MEDICAL PERSONNEL TO EXPLAIN NATURE OF POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION CYCLE THRESHOLD (CT) VALUES TO COVID-19 PATIENTS AND RELEASE CT VALUES TO PATIENTS”
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