Curb Covid-19 with better dorms

Crowded conditions: To save costs, large numbers of foreign workers are often crowded into small spaces – and this does not allow room for the physical distancing required to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. — Filepic/The Star

THERE’S an apt idiom for our seemingly never-ending battle against Covid-19, especially on infections spreading among foreign workers: A stitch in time saves nine. It means it is better to fix a problem when it is small instead of waiting until it becomes a much bigger issue.

Daily numbers of Covid-19 infections have reached quadruple digits, increasing to a total of 56,659 with 337 deaths as of Nov 23.