KUALA LUMPUR : Weeks after two of his roommates were diagnosed with COVID-19, Mohamad Arif Hassan says he's still waiting to be tested for the coronavirus.
Quarantined in his room in a sprawling foreign workers' dormitory that has emerged as Singapore's biggest viral cluster, the 28-year-old Bangladeshi construction worker says he isn't too worried because neither he nor his eight other roommates have any symptoms.
Still, Arif couldn't be blamed if he were more than just a bit concerned. Infections in Singapore, an affluent Southeast Asian city-state of fewer than 6 million people, have jumped more than a hundredfold in two months — from 226 in mid-March to more than 23,000, the most in Asia after China, India and Pakistan.