The republic currently has one of the highest infection rates in Asia. FMTNews Singapore
The Punggol S-11 foreign workers’ dormitory is gazetted as an isolation area after Covid-19 clusters appeared.
SINGAPORE: Singapore registered 931 new coronavirus infections, its health ministry said on Sunday, taking the city-state’s total number of Covid-19 cases to 13,624. The vast majority of the new cases are migrant workers living in dormitories, the health ministry said in the statement. Fifteen of the new cases are permanent residents.The tiny country of 5.7 million people now has one of the highest infection rates in Asia, according to official figures, due to outbreaks in cramped dormitories housing over 300,000 mainly South Asian workers.Subscribe to our newsletter and get news delivered to your mailbox.
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