Workers constructing outdoor building structures which will house an additional 1700 beds at the Changi Exhibition Centre which has been repurposed into a community isolation facility that will house recovering or early Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms, during the outbreak, in Singapore on Sunday (April 26). - Reuters
SINGAPORE: Singapore is rapidly building bed space for Covid-19 (coronavirus) patients in cavernous exhibition halls and other temporary facilities as it faces a surge in cases, mainly among its large community of low-paid migrant workers.
The tiny city-state of 5.7 million people has over 12,000 confirmed infections of the virus that causes Covid-19, one of the most in Asia, due to outbreaks in cramped dormitories housing over 300,000 mainly South Asian workers.
