Massive COVID‐19 infections in foreign workers dormitories: The dog that did not bark in Singapore’s fight against the COVID‐19 pandemic

• Main Author: TAN, Eugene K. B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: infections; Singapore; COVID-19; pandemic; public health; Asian Studies; Public Health; Public Law and Legal Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3234; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5195/viewcontent/Massive__COVID_19__infections__in__foreign__workers.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In the ongoing battle to combat the massive COVID-19 infections in the foreign workers’ dormitories, the focus and dominant narrative, unsurprisingly, has been on overcoming the clear and present public health issues there. The imperative is to safeguard the wellbeing and interests of the foreign workers who reside there (and including those who have been moved out), which is also fundamentally about protecting the rest of the community.