Speaker I have have one one question question for minister chose chose one one question question and and four four questions questions questions for for for Instagram ah ah the the first first question question is is to to minister minister minister chose chose this is to to efforts efforts on on the the economic economic front front front the the the first first half half of of a a of a statement statement object objective objective of of the the JDS was to encourage companies to retain workers workers ah ah however however some some employers employees employees indicating indicating that that the the nineteen circuit breaker measures measures I I have have made made their their their business businesses businesses and and no no longer longer viable viable and Singapore workers inevitable there's also been some evidence of residents coming up to to us and saying employers have been Institute of age Cutts. no pain relief this is even amongst established companies as the Ministry of any estimate of the regiment numbers. it is anticipating what is it booking with and it's the government planning additional support measures, particularly for the low and Middle income. The. next question next question of Minister Gunn the first teams to Kobi 19 testing for locals, which number up to one point One million in Singapore of December 2019, excluding from domestic workers. does the government have a road map to potentially test all the foreign workers progressively starting with the construction workers, and is there a timeline for this secondly, how many foreign workers specifically have been tested so far of the I believe a hundred and 40000. Figure that minister shared the third question pertains to ah ah the impediments to wide spread testing early on in early April where we were covering where the task force said that about one thousand five hundred to two thousand five hundred test work conductor daily at this number is putting to be scale up to forty thousand as the minister just shared ah can the minister share what were the impediments and how how these these impediments impediments were were overcome overcome to to reach reach reach this this this number number and and by by when when Expect 40000 tests to be conducted on a daily basis finally, there is the question I had of the safe entry app, which I believe was shared by Minister Wong by Wess, the Tass expect all commercial establishments to Institute or to ensure that the app is used that before Singaporeans can enter those premises. Thank you. Mister Speaker, It is not possible for us to tell at this point in time what the refreshments and the job losses are going to be like you know during this period, we are watching very carefully for the time being actually we have an added challenge, which is this a collection during this period is not as easy as it was surveys that are sent to companies may not be picked up in. Thyme because some companies work from home so if we have the emails, we will send it to them. Some companies expressed to us difficulties, for example in accessing their own databases, You know in order to provide information to MOM, so we have some of these challenges to overcome. nonetheless, I think there's not much point and value in us speculating what the retrenchment numbers. What the unemployment will be like I think the key is working with the partners to plan for recovery of economic activities earlier in the in the minister of statement that minister Lawrence warm made we talked about the very important changes that we need to make what places one thing he said said I I am am not not sure sure I you remember remember remember spiked spiked picked up up up was was the the idea idea of Safe management, meaning depending on the workplace situation, how do you ensure that workers can continue to come to work and remain safe? So we are focusing all of our efforts on that front. In the meantime, of course we are in discussion with economic agencies MTI, Of course, very importantly with M O F to see additional support is needed, I think finance Minister. Pm the government's position very clear and that is that where more help is needed it will be provided So I mean I mentioned earlier that we have a tested. a total of 21004 will get sometime last week. By now, the number would have grown to close to 30000 foreign workers. Do we have a plan to test all of our workers? Currently, we do not plan to test all our workers of testing is still very targeted for specific purposes we do testing on Tories generally to establish the baseline level of infection in each torry so that we are able to strategize how we. To the Dorrie and we also do baseline testing of workers in generals to have a sense of where we are in terms of the infection rates, but for those who are infected in selected Tories, we also do aggressive aggressive testing in order to allow us to identify and to affect the workers so that we can isolate them and to protect those who are not infected. So these are strategies that we have put in place for the management of a Optometry and the testing will. With the strategy and managing this arie at the same time, we are also looking at the testing more of the essential workers that are going to continue to work in the community and this will include a foreign workers as well as workers so for the foreign workers who are continuing to work in the industries we will have to test them and sometimes I just once but repeatedly because they would have they would continue to be exposed in the community and the workplace and therefore they may be a need to repeat the test on them and these. Essential workers number will grow as we begin to restore many of the business activities and so therefore it's also important for us to do so in a safe way and testing as I mentioned is important part of the strategy to ensure safe opening and safe for restoration of some of the business activities. how do we get to a 40000? There are several constrains one is availability of tests. Kitts. We will need to look at how we can source for more test kits both of manufacturing. As well as so procuring internationally to to allow us to have more capacity to do so at the same time, we're also looking at materials because each test will also require materials for the testing such as the reagents that we need for the extraction of our or any materials. so in order for us to ensure that we have the test kit, but we need to process it and therefore we will make sure that we have to make sure that we have sufficient supplies of these materials and thirdly which. Also manpower requirement because we can do the test that we can do the swaps by having swap the patients the individuals we still need to process that swaps documented tested and have the results properly. I recorded all these requires laboy capacity so they are infrastructure and manpower requirements at every stage of the test and we are progressively raising this capacity and we hope to be able to reach 40000 as soon as possible. I won't be able to promise you when, but we are doing our best to ramp it up. today we are able to do about eight thousand a day and we hope in a short time shop your time, we'll be able to reach a 40000 soon, but at the same time we also have to be mindful that in fact, there's a global shortage of some of these test kits and the materials the reagents globally and therefore we have to ensure that we have a continued supply and stock of this and materials to allow us to come. New this high level of testing. mister Speaker in the last question on the safe entry system, we are mandating that for all business premises and venues from the twelfth of May.