The number of COVID-19 cases has been rising in the hundreds with each passing day even as Singapore is in circuit-breaker mode. Most of the numbers were contributed by the foreign workers living in the dormitories.

On 31st March, Westlite Toh Guan reported 5 cases of residents testing positive for COVID-19. It became the very first worker’s dorm to be identified as a COVID-19 cluster.

Five days later on the 5th April, it was gazetted as an isolation area together with the S11 dormitory at Ponggol. More than 20,000 foreign workers are confined to their rooms for the next 14 days.

From that moment on, there was no looking back. The close living quarters in Purpose Built Worker’s Accommodation (PBWA) caused a massive spike in the number of cases in a very short period of time. In barely two weeks, 15 dorms have emerged as clusters and more