The workers in Singapore are enduring one of the longest Covid confinement periods in the world.
In 2020 Singapore was hit by a series of coronavirus outbreaks, centred around dormitories where thousands of migrant workers live. Cases have dropped significantly, but most of the men are still not permitted to leave except to go to work. It is one of the longest periods of Covid confinement faced by anyone anywhere in the world.Sharif came to Singapore in 2008. At the time, his wife was pregnant and the bookstore he ran in Bangladesh had gone bankrupt.
"I appreciate the experiment," he says. "But I can't express much joy at this news. Workers are only allowed to go to a certain place for a fixed time." Most of his spare time he spends lying on the top bunk of his bed, either talking to his family or writing prose and poetry - both in English and Bengali.
One of them, Packrisamy Muruganantham from India, told those assembled that he was "very happy to be out" and "very grateful to the Singapore government and to the MOM for taking care of us".Since the start of the pandemic, Singapore has reported 58 deaths out of a population of 5.7 million.
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