Residents queue for their food at a workers’ dormitory in Singapore, April 2020. Authorities were blindsided by a surge in cases in foreign worker dorms that forced them to impose a nationwide lockdown. The daily cases there have since fallen to or near zero.
Photographer: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
Photographer: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
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In Southeast Asia, migrant workers at the bottom rungs of society have borne the brunt of Covid-19. Without real efforts to address their plight, the group could prove to be a key risk to the region’s ability to shake off the pandemic.
These workers, numbering some 10 million in Southeast Asia, have become…
