SINGAPORE: The National Stadium usually welcomes the biggest of names, from rock group U2 to Mandopop band Mayday as well as international sports stars. But as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on this year, concerts and sporting events were cancelled, and the stadium soon played host to a different group of visitors.
Pictured here are some workers staying inside the OCBC arena, which housed 800 of them. It was the first venue within the Singapore Sports Hub to be tapped on. Panels used to construct partitions were in short supply by the time the National Stadium was used to house migrant workers, but the sports hub team managed to secure tents which allowed them to create individual bed accommodations inside the National Stadium.
Meals catering to workers with different palates were cooked at the sports hub's central kitchen. The kitchen crew had to cook curries at almost every meal for the South Asian residents, while the other residents usually got steamed or baked vegetables and proteins. Sometimes, special meals were delivered, with mixed results - biryani was so popular the residents kept requesting for it. However, spaghetti was a miss, and the cooks ended up in the kitchen preparing popcorn chicken till 2am that night, Mr MacDonald recalled.
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