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Singapore, Apr 17 (EFE/EPA).- Singapore, which was hailed for its efforts to contain COVID-19, is now seeing a surge in infections linked to dormitories crammed with migrant workers.On Wednesday, 447 new coronavirus cases were reported in the city-state, the highest increase in daily infections so far, out of which 404 were among foreign workers living in dorms, according to the health ministry's latest data.At least 1,800 out of the total 3,699 cases in Singapore are linked to these dorms. (Camera: WALLACE WOON)FOOTAGE SHOWS MIGRANT WORKERS IN SINGAPORE.
Mumbai, Apr 9 (EFE/EPA).- Migrant workers in big cities such as Delhi and Mumbai headed home Friday as India's overall coronavirus caseload crossed the 13 million mark.According to the federal health ministry, 131,968 new patients tested coronavirus positive in the last 24 hours since Thursday morning.Deaths rose by 780, increasing the toll of 167,642. (Camera: DIVYAKANT SOLANKI). SHOT LIST: MIGRANT WORKERS WAIT TO RETURN HOME IN MUMBAI, INDIA.
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, 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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