Proposal for SMSes on Quarantine Orders, Health Risk Warnings and Health Risk Alerts to be in Vernacular Languages

Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song asked the Minister for Health whether SMSes informing people of quarantine orders, health risk warnings (HRWs), health risk alerts can be sent in both English and vernacular languages, to ensure the instructions are clearly understood by all recipients.

Mr Ong Ye Kung: With the revised protocols which started from 11 October 2021, we are now only issuing HRWs to close contacts of COVID-19 cases. SMS notifications sent to HRWs include links for translations of the message in Mandarin, Malay and Tamil.