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Singapore Virus Cases to Fall as Worker Dorms Almost Cleared
- 90% of foreign workers in dorms may return to work this month
- Singapore adjusts policy for virus treatment for travellers
Healthcare staff talk to a migrant worker at a foreign workers' dormitory in Singapore.
Photographer: Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images
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The number of new Covid-19 cases in Singapore is set to fall after the city-state nears clearing its migrant worker dormitories of the virus, paving the way for 90% of these laborers to return to work by the end of the month.
Testing for all workers in the facilities will be completed by tomorrow, the health ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Several standalone blocks that serve as quarantine facilities are the exception and workers there will be tested when their isolation ends, it said.