Singapore’s migrant worker's crisis
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Singapore’s migrant worker's crisis

Singapore had around 1,000 coronavirus cases at the start of April, the country now has more than 26,000 cases and most of them are migrant workers. 1.4 million migrant workers live in the city-state, mostly employed in construction, manual labor. Of these, about 200,000 live in 43 dormitories, according to Minister of Manpower Josephine Teo. Singapore is struggling to contain the dorm clusters, with at least 23,758 infected dormitory residents

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