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Bangkok, Jul 14 (EFE/EPA).- Thailand ordered the suspension of Covid-19 tests on immigrant workers, confined since late June and one of the most worrying sources of infection, an NGO said Wednesday.The Migrant Working Group association, which represents 30 local NGOs in favor of immigrant rights, accused the Labor Ministry of halting tests, according to a document dated Jul. 5 that cites a "lack of resources and medical personnel" as reasons for the measure.Thailand faces its worst wave of infections and deaths since the pandemic began and has implemented a series of restrictions and partial confinements to stop the advance of the outbreak, linked in part to the delta variant. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS VACCINATION DRIVES IN BANGKOK; AND WORKERS LIVING IN A CONSTRUCTION CAMP QUARENTINED UNDER MEASURES TO CONTAIN THE SPREAD OF COVID-19, IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Singapore, Jan 19 (EFE/EPA).- Singapore started rolling out the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine with healthcare workers being the first group to receive vaccinations. Singapore has registered so far 59,113 cases of COVID-19 and 29 deaths related to the disease. (Camera: WALLACE WOON).SHOT LIST: HEALTH WORKERS GET COVID-19 VACCINES 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, Apr 27 (EFE / EPA) .- Foreign workers in Singapore continue to be quarantined away from the luxurious center of the metropolis inside compact rooms where up to 20 people can fit after having tested positive for COVID-19.More than a thousand confirmed cases of coronavirus were detected in these precarious barracks. (Camera: WALLACE WOON)FOOTAGE SHOWS ROOMS FOR FOREIGN WORKERS IN SINGAPORE.
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