People eat at a table installed with plexiglass dividers at a food court in Singapore as the city state enforces social distancing to fight the spread of Covid-19, June 19, 2020. - Reuters
SINGAPORE (Reuters): Having once had the highest Covid-19 rate in Southeast Asia, Singapore has all but eradicated the virus after reporting 14 days without any new local cases on Tuesday (Nov 24), and saying it had snuffed out the last cluster of infection at a worker dormitory.
The cramped dormitories for young, low-wage labourers, mainly from Bangladesh, India and China had been at the centre of the city-state's spiralling cases earlier this year.
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