COLUMNIST Mangai Balasegaram made a cogent argument when she called for strict monitoring of factories and workplaces where physical distancing is impossible (“Our treatment of migrant workers will come back to haunt us”, Human Writes, StarLifestyle, June 13; online at bit.ly/star_migrant).
Workers often also live in cramped quarters. So, yes, as she says, not improving conditions for them is like pouring kerosene on a burning epidemic.
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