The Lists of High-Traffic Supermarkets Identified By MTI and They Might Be Conducting Contract Tracing On Visitors

Yesterday – Tuesday (22 Apr), PM Lee Hsien Loong has announced on Singapore moving to a tighter Circuit Breaker and there would be a crowd control especially at the market and super market

With that, the National Environment Agency (NEA) has introduced a new NRIC-based entry system in four wet markets that have seen high visitor traffic, where people can only enter markets on alternate days depending on the last digit of their NRIC or FIN numbers.

Now moving on to the supermarket, seems like there has been crowd sighted. Here are some of the crowd situation at the supermarket

Queue situation at Fairprice Toa Payoh HDB Hub

Image via Singapore Atrium Sale

Queue situation at Fairprice Our Tampines Hub

Image via Singapore Atrium Sale

So according to the MTI press release on Tuesday (21 Apr), the following branches have been advised to take down shoppers’ information to facilitate contact tracing if doable.

So those Supermarkets with bigger crowd are encourage to do the action steps below to abide by the safe distancing measurement:

1. Advise shoppers to limit their excursions to only one family member, to prevent family outings at supermarkets.
2. Reserve certain opening hours for the vulnerable, like the elderly, disabled and pregnant.
3. Sell some of their products outdoors or in mall atriums to divert the crowd.
4. Log their workers’ entering and exiting, possibly with a digital application called SafeEntry.

For NRIC implementation for Supermarket, now only implemented for wet market but they may also be extended to even more markets, and to supermarkets as well.

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