{"id":17258,"date":"2020-04-17T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T05:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/17\/singapores-cramped-migrant-worker-dorms-hide-covid-19-surge-risk"},"modified":"2020-04-17T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T05:10:26","slug":"singapores-cramped-migrant-worker-dorms-hide-covid-19-surge-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17258","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#8217;s cramped migrant worker dorms hide Covid-19 surge risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City-state has been lauded for its comprehensive measures but officials have been accused of overlooking key group<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Singapore, praised for its gold standard approach to tracing coronavirus cases, is facing a surge in transmission linked to its cramped migrant workers\u2019 dormitories, where thousands more infections are expected to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>The health ministry reported 728 new cases on Thursday, the biggest rise in a single day, as medical teams raced to test and isolate workers living in vast dormitory blocks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/17\/singapores-cramped-migrant-worker-dorms-hide-covid-19-surge-risk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City-state has been lauded for its comprehensive measures but officials have been accused of overlooking key groupCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSingapore, praised for its gold standard approach to tracing coronavirus cases&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,491,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-migration","category-singapore"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17259,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions\/17259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}