Passing the time: Migrant workers throwing darts in a recreation room of their temporary living quarters at a train station construction site in Singapore. — Reuters
WEEKS after two of his roommates were diagnosed with Covid-19, Mohamad Arif Hassan is still waiting to be tested for the coronavirus.Quarantined in his room in a sprawling foreign workers’ dormitory that has emerged as Singapore’s biggest viral cluster, the 28-year-old Bangladeshi construction worker says he isn’t too worried because neither he nor his eight other roommates have shown any symptoms.
Still, Arif couldn’t be blamed if he were more than just a bit concerned.Infections in Singapore, an affluent South-East Asian city-state of fewer than six million people, have jumped more than a hundredfold in two months – from 226 in mid-March to more than 23,000, the most in Asia after China, India and Pakistan. Only 20 of the infections have resulted in deaths.
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