Nearly half of migrant workers in Singapore have been infected with Covid-19 in the past nine months, reports the Hindustan Times citing data published by Singapore’s health ministry. The data showed that more than 152,000 migrant workers, out of 320,000, who live in dormitories, have been infected. The vast majority of the Covid-19 cases occurred in dormitories of migrant workers, where the coronavirus spread quickly due to their communal living arrangements. The ministry added that the health and social distancing measures turned out to be inadequate, given the highly infectious nature of the virus. “We acted swiftly and decisively to stabilise the situation in the dormitories. Working closely with dormitory operators, employers, the medical community, NGOs and other community groups, we contained the outbreak and cleared the dormitories of the virus,” the ministry stated.