CORONAVIRUS | Singapore has seen virus cases surge in sprawling housing complexes for foreign labourers and is looking for new accommodation solutions for hundreds of workers.
| Singapore is assessing whether migrant workers who have recovered from Covid-19 might be safer on cruise ships than back in dormitories that have become infection hotbeds, despite problems controlling onboard outbreaks encountered elsewhere.
Around 60 percent of the 4,427 people infected on the island stay in dormitories, where mainly South Asian labourers live 12 to 20 in a room and share toilets in conditions some workers have said are unsanitary. It said the measure could be rolled out for workers who have recovered from Covid-19 and tested negative, helping free up space in dormitories.
People rarely catch infectious diseases twice as they develop some immunity, medical experts say, though there have been isolated reports of such cases since the pandemic began in China in December.
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