‘There were warning signs before the new outbreak. On Feb. 10, after a Bangladeshi labourer became the first to be infected with the virus, lawyer Dipa Swaminathan, founder of It’s Raining Raincoats, an initiative that works with migrants, wrote a Facebook post warning that ‘the spread among them could be rapid, given the cramped conditions in which they live, work and are transported.’
‘Health officials said the man had visited Mustafa Center, a giant shopping complex in Singapore’s Little India district that is popular with foreign workers.
‘But as recently as two weeks ago, shoppers were going in and out of the building without temperature checks, and few employees were seen wearing masks. On Tuesday, the government said 86 infections had been linked to Mustafa Center.’
Read here (Los Angeles Times, April 14, 2020)
