Migrant workers living in vast Singapore dormitories cut off from the outside world due to the coronavirus outbreak fear their cramped and squalid quarters are fast becoming a hotbed for infection.
Singapore on Sunday said it had quarantined nearly 20,000 workers in two dormitories, made up of mainly Bangladeshi and other South Asian manual workers, after they were linked to at least 90 infections.
“If anyone is infected with the virus in our room or in our block, it is just a matter of time to catch the virus,” said Majidul Haq, a 25-year-old Bangladeshi, who stays at the S11 Dormitory @Punggol with some 13,000 other workers. “We seek the public’s understanding and patience as we work with the dormitory operators to resolve the ground challenges,” the ministry said.
Security and police officers are seen outside the entrance to Westlite Dormitory, one of the two workers' dormitory gazetted as isolation areas to curb the spread of coronavirus disease in Singapore April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su“As it stands, the quarantine at these dormitories may be discriminatory and amount to an arbitrary deprivation of liberty,” said the charity’s Singapore researcher, Rachel Chhoa-Howard.
To combat rising virus cases, Singapore has advised its residents to stay home, not socialise and maintain a metre distance between each other if they have to go out for essential activities like shopping. “The dormitories were like a time bomb waiting to explode,” Tommy Koh said in a widely shared Facebook post on Monday.“Singapore should treat this as a wake up call to treat our indispensable foreign workers like a First World country should and not in the disgraceful way in which they are treated now.”
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