Singapore Takes Small Step in Easing Controls on Migrant Workers
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Singapore will allow some migrant workers -- who have largely been confined to dormitories -- to visit recreation centers as the city-state gradually relaxes measures to stem the spread of Covid-19.
The more than 300,000 overseas workers have been confined to their living quarters since April, and have only been allowed out in recent months to go to work and for essential errands, after the coronavirus ripped through the tightly-packed dormitories. That’s even as life has been slowly returning to normal for local Singaporeans and white-collar expatriates.