SINGAPORE: Singapore is rapidly building bed space for Covid-19 (coronavirus) patients in cavernous exhibition halls and other temporary facilities as it faces a surge in cases, mainly among its large community of low-paid migrant workers. The tiny city-state of 5.7 million people has over 12,000 confirmed infections of the virus that causes Covid-19, one of the most in Asia, due to outbreaks in cramped dormitories housing over 300,000 mainly South Asian workers.
Workers constructing outdoor building structures which will house an additional 1700 beds at the Changi Exhibition Centre which has been repurposed into a community isolation facility that will house recovering or early Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms, during the outbreak, in Singapore on Sunday . - Reuters
One such facility at Changi Exhibition Centre - home to the Singapore Airshow, Asia's biggest aerospace gathering - could eventually house over 4,000 patients recovering from the disease and those with mild symptoms. Singapore trails only China, India, Japan and Pakistan in Asia for the number of coronavirus infections. More than 10,000 of those infected, some 80% of its total, are foreign workers, many of whom have been placed in"isolation facilities" for people with mild symptoms such as the conference centres.
At the new Changi isolation centre, each room has blood-pressure monitors and other medical equipment for patients to conduct their own health checks three times daily, while remote-controlled robots provide meals and teleconferencing services to reduce contact.
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