BANGKOK: Singapore on Tuesday (April 14) has reported its biggest daily jump in new coronavirus infections, most of them linked to foreign workers living in crowded dormitories. Foreigners account for over a third of Singapore’s workforce, many of them people from poorer Asian countries working in construction, shipping and maintenance jobs that support Singapore’s trade-reliant economy.
SINGAPORE: Singapore on Tuesday has reported its biggest daily jump in new coronavirus infections, most of them linked to foreign workers living in crowded dormitories.
The tiny city state of nearly 6 million people has shut down non-essential businesses and schools until May 4 in a partial lockdown to try to halt the spread of the new coronavirus. The country was put under a state of emergency last week, but many people were still seen queuing up at grocery stores and crowding shopping arcades in parts of downtown Tokyo to stock up on necessities.
The United Nations has suspended the deployment and rotation of UN peacekeeping troops until June 30.
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