Singapore government is arranging to house hundreds of migrant workers in floating accommodation vessels that are typically used for offshore and marine industry staff as it races to find alternatives to dormitories where the novel coronavirus has been spreading fast.
Tens of thousands of foreign guest workers,mostly from South Asia, live in cramped dormitories across Singapore, which have at present become the biggest source of coronavirus infections.
several healthy residents of those facilities are being moved to other sites including military camps, an exhibition center, vacant public housing blocks and the accommodation vessels, dubbed “floating hotels.”
After visiting one of the vessels minister of transport Khaw Boon Wan said “Each facility can hold a few hundred occupants and can be suitably organized to achieve safe distancing.”They are docked in a restricted area of a port terminal.
Singapore reported 386 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, taking its national total to 2,918 including 9 fatalities.
