Singapore worker dormitories again hit by new wave of virus clusters


Foreign workers wind down after work as they enjoy their packeted dinner and chit chat in their shared room, with their clothes hung all around on makeshift clothes lines, at their construction-site dormitories near Punngol in Singapore.The republic has again reported a sharp increase of coronavirus infections in foreign-worker dormitories as it seeks to tamp down rising case numbers island-wide that have pushed deaths from the pandemic to a record level. - The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE, Oct 2 (Bloomberg): Singapore again reported a sharp increase of coronavirus infections in foreign-worker dormitories as it seeks to tamp down rising case numbers island-wide that have pushed deaths from the pandemic to a record level.

The city-state’s Ministry of Health said that eight people had died on Friday (Oct 1) from Covid-19, matching Wednesday’s toll -- the highest daily fatality rate since the pandemic began.

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