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Singapore re-examines plight of migrant workers after pandemic

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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.

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