Why does the proportion of foreign workers in Singapore infected with COVID-19 exceed 15%?

Mainly due to the high spatial density of foreign worker dormitories in Singapore, which is equivalent to crowding, once a person has the new coronavirus, it will spread to other people in the dormitory very quickly , this kind of spreading speed from one to ten to a hundred is naturally unexpected. Therefore, 330,000 foreign workers in Singapore were eventually diagnosed with the infection, and the proportion of new coronary pneumonia exceeded 15%.

According to data released by the Singapore Health Bureau, there are a total of 330,000 foreign workers working in Singapore, and 49,327 have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus, so the diagnosis rate exceeds 15 %, meaning that one in every 6.5 foreign workers will be diagnosed.

In fact, you can also imagine that most of those foreign workers are from relatively poor countries in Africa and Asia, so they come to Singapore, a prosperous country, to make money to support their families. The requirements are not high, so most of the foreign workers are squeezed into a small room. Their living space is very large. I think it is comparable to a slum in India. If we use home quarantine to protect foreign workers from the epidemic, it is actually useless. The so-called home quarantine for ordinary people is because they live alone or as a family in an area of ??tens or more than 100 square meters. As for foreign workers, they may have five or six people living in a few or ten square meters, just like the dormitories in our junior high schools. They live together day and night. Once one person is infected, it will quickly spread to other people in the dormitory. People, especially people in most areas, are susceptible to virus infection, which allows the virus to take advantage of it.

And since foreign workers in Singapore come to Singapore to earn money, their safety awareness and quality must be low. They know very little about how to carry out scientific epidemic prevention, so they lose in the first step. Coupled with their living conditions, they are pushed to the position of contracting the epidemic. When the virus spread rapidly among foreign workers in Singapore, the Singapore government immediately closed the dormitory area, began to adjust the living density, and tested all workers for the virus. Then this will be a huge workload, and we don’t know After the residential density is adjusted, how many people will be infected during this period.