Dorm cleaner who caught Covid-19 at work got help from Courage Fund

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SINGAPORE - Cleaner Lim Kim Chong, 56, was infected with the coronavirus in April 2020 when Cochrane Lodge 1 dormitory, where he worked at, was declared a Covid-19 cluster.

Quarantined in an isolation facility in Pasir Ris for over a month, he tapped a Covid-19 relief scheme for frontline workers who contracted the virus at work and got $3,000 in aid.

Cases among workers staying in dormitories surged from 31 in April 2020 to more than 15,000 the following month, and then to 33,000 in June that year.He was more afraid of passing the infection to his mother, who is in her 80s and lives with him in a three-room flat in Ang Mo Kio.

 

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Good for him. How about the ones we stayed in the dorms? They got any help? Of course no. Because Singapore has an apartheid system.

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