Singapore plans coronavirus tests for all in migrant worker dormitories

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Infections in the dormitories have 'stabilised' says the health minister. FMTNews

A foreign worker talks on the phone at the WestLite Toh Guan dormitory which is designated as an isolation area.

The island’s tally of 24,671 infections is one of Asia’s highest, with the vast majority among migrant workers squeezed into often unsanitary dormitories on the nation’s fringes.

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