Reuters :
Singapore is quarantining more than 1,100 migrant workers after about a dozen COVID-19 cases were found in a dormitory and was investigating the possibility of re-infections among those who had recovered from the virus.
More than 1,100 workers from the dormitory will be quarantined at government facilities for 14 days, the dormitory operator said in a letter to clients circulated on social media.
Centurion Corp, which owns the Westlite Woodlands dormitory, confirmed the authenticity of the letter.
Authorities conducted COVID-19 tests on residents of the dormitory after one worker was found positive on Tuesday during routine testing.
The worker had received a second vaccination dose a week earlier and his roommate also tested positive.
To date, at least 10 recovered workers have tested positive for COVID-19.
“These cases were immediately isolated and conveyed to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) to investigate for possible re-infection,” the manpower ministry said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
A Reuters journalist saw about 10 buses lined up near the dormitory compound on Thursday, taking dozens of men out of the complex.
