The number of Covid-19 cases in the city-state has spiked in the past month — from about 1,000 cumulative cases on April 1 to more than 10,000 today.
"Foreign workers are housed in dorms that can go up to thousands in numbers, each of them housed in rooms to about 10 to 12 with a communal toilet that serves 10 people also ... you can understand that they would be living in a situation that allows easy transmission of the virus," Leong told CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia" last week.
Asymptomatic transmitters are people who remain infectious even though they do not develop any symptoms, whileare those who end up developing symptoms later, he later explained in an email to CNBC. "You must understand that this virus thrives with any form of interaction whatsoever with people. And when you open up, you can actually spread it," he said., veteran diplomat Tommy Koh, Singapore's former permanent representative to the United Nations, said that overcrowded dormitories — which were "not clean or sanitary" — were like a "time bomb waiting to explode.
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