Migrant workers rest at a swab isolation facility as they wait for their test results at a dormitory, amid the Covid-19 outbreak in Singapore May 15, 2020. — Reuters pic
Four months on, some dormitories remain under quarantine, and even migrants who have been declared virus-free have had their movements restricted and face uncertainty over the jobs on which their families back home depend. Singapore's Ministry of Manpower said late yesterday it was monitoring recent suicides and attempted suicides involving migrant workers in dormitories and working with its partners to enhance mental health support programmes for them.
Authorities have said they expect to lift quarantines on all dormitories this week, with the exception of some blocks serving as quarantine zones.
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