SINGAPORE, April 26 — Singapore is rapidly building bed space for 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...
Workers construct outdoor building structures which will house an additional 1700 beds at Changi Exhibition Centre during the Covid-19 outbreak, in Singapore April 24, 2020. — Reuters pic
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 per cent 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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