Singapore quarantines around 1,200 migrant workers after virus cases

Personnel in protective garment usher a group of migrant workers to take a bus to a government quarantine facility after workers were tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Westlite Woodlands dormitory in Singapore April 22, 2021. - Reuters

SINGAPORE, April 23 (AFP): Singapore has quarantined about 1,200 migrant workers from a dormitory after coronavirus cases were discovered among men thought to have already recovered from infections, officials said.

Vast dormitories housing mostly South Asian workers were at the centre of Singapore's initial outbreak last year, with the majority of the city-state's cases in the self-contained complexes.