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Singapore, Apr 28 (EFE / EPA) .- singapore has registers 528 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, most of them in dorms designed for foreign workers. Singapore has so far registered 14,951 cases and 14 deaths derived from the COVID-19 virus. (Camera: WALLACE WOON)FOOTAGE SHOWS SOLDIERS GUARDING FOREIGN WORKER DORMITORIES IN SINGAPORE.
Singapore, Aug 21 (EFE / EPA).- NGO Healthserve offers medical and dental care to unskilled migrant workers in Singapore, after an outbreak of COVID-19 was registered in the barracks where these workers live.Healthserve is an NGO that provides affordable medical and dental care for migrant workers through volunteer-run clinics. Migrant workers pay 8 Singapore dollars (4.93euros) for medical consultation and medicine and 15 Singapore dollars (9.25 euros) for dental service. (Camera: HOW HWEE YOUNG)FOOTAGE SHOWS THE HEALTHSERVE FACILITY IN SINGAPORE.
Singapore, Jun 5 (EFE/EPA).- With the rehabilitation of buildings as temporary accommodation and the future construction of 11 dormitories, Singapore is rethinking the situation of thousands of unskilled migrant workers that account for more than 90 percent of Covid-19 cases in the city-state.The authorities of Singapore, one of the first countries to detect the virus within its borders, managed to escape the first wave of the pandemic with a rapid and effective strategy based on testing and isolation of those infected.However, they forgot a small section of the population: Some 300,000 unskilled workers, mostly from South Asia, living in 43 overcrowded dormitories and essential to the functioning of the prosperous city-state of 5.6 million inhabitants.More than 90 percent of the 36,922 people infected with the coronavirus during the second wave in Singapore since April belong to this group.The city-state began lifting restrictions earlier this month despite reporting 517 new positive cases on Thursday, 502 of them in the foreign worker dormitories (Camera: WALLACE WOON).FOOTAGE SHOWS A NEIGHBOURHOOD WHERE MIGRANT WORKER DORMITORIES ARE LOCATED IN SINGAPORE.
Singapore, May 23 (EFE/EPA).-The Superstar Gemini cruise ship, docked at the Marina Bay Cruise Center in Singapore, is being used to house around 700 migrant workers who have recovered from the COVID-19 disease.A majority of Singapore's 30,426 confirmed cases of the coronavirus are from the migrant worker community living in overcrowded dorms. (Camera: WALLACE WOON).SHOTLIST: MIGRANT WORKERS WHO HAVE RECOVERED FROM THE COVID-19 DISEASE LIVING ON THE CRUISE SHIP SUPERSTAR GEMINI BERTHED AT THE MARINA BAY CRUISE CENTRE IN SINGAPORE.
Singapore, May 2 (EFE/EPA).- Migrant workers in Singapore remain in isolation at a dormitory to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in Singapore.Singapore continues to see an increase in new Covid-19 coronavirus cases where the vast majority are migrant workers residing in foreign workers dormitories.The city-state has registered so far 17,101 COVID-19 cases in total and 16 deaths from the disease. (Camera: HOW HWEE YOUNG)FOOTAGE SHOWS MIGRANT WORKERS IN CONFINEMENT IN SPECIAL DORMITORIES IN SINGAPORE.
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