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Surge in COVID-19 cases shows wealthy Singapore's dark underbelly

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Singapore, Apr 21 (EFE/EPA).-The unskilled foreign workers living in small rooms and unhygienic conditions in squalid working-class dormitories of Singapore have become victims of a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak, which has led the number of cases tripling within a week in a country that had been touted as a model for containing the epidemic.As many as 1,091 of the total 1,111 fresh case reported nationwide on Tuesday were detected in these dormitories, situated away from the wealthy center of the city, which consist of tiny quarters that house up to 20 people.(Camera: HOW HWEE YOUNG/WALLACE WOON).FOOTAGE SHOWS THE COCHRANE LODGE 2 DORMITORIES, WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED AS AN ISOLATION AREA, IN SINGAPORE; AND B-ROLLS OF BUILDINGS AND STREETS IN AN UPSCALE NEIGHBOUR HOOD IN SINGAPORE.

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