Covid-19 cases surging as Singapore race to build beds for patients

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.