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A forum letter published in Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao that linked the Covid-19 outbreak in dormitories to foreign workers’ personal hygiene and living habits showed racism and deep insensitivity, Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam said yesterday.
The letter, published on Tuesday, also showed a lack of understanding of why there has been Covid-19 transmission in Singapore’s foreign worker population, he added.
While the average number of cases in the local community has stayed stable in recent days, the number of cases in dormitories has soared to the hundreds and now forms the majority of new cases.
This is primarily due to communal living and is not just a question of personal habits, Mr Shanmugam told Zaobao.
“Personal habits are extremely important: washing of hands, keeping yourself clean,” he said.
“But when you put people together, when they sleep in the same room, they cook together and they are in close proximity over a long period of time, of course there will be high levels of transmission, just like we know (there are) also transmissions in households.”
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