KUALA LUMPUR – After managing to keep on top of the first wave of coronavirus outbreaks, Singapore is grappling with an alarming rise in infections among migrant workers housed in crowded dormitories.
Such cases now account for about a quarter of Singapore’s 1,910 infections. The government reported 287 new cases Thursday, its biggest daily jump.
More than 200 were linked to the foreign workers’ dormitories. The tiny city-state of less than 6 million people was seen as a model in its early, swift response to the virus.
But it apparently overlooked the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers living in conditions where social distancing is impossible.