It’s like living in a ‘prison’

Plight of workers: More than 300,000 migrant workers live in packed dorms in Singapore. — AFP

BANGADESHI migrant worker MD Sharif Uddin used to spend his days off with friends outside his cramped dormitory, but coronavirus curbs have for 18 months left him stuck inside during his spare time.

More than 300,000 migrant workers, many of them from South Asia, live in dorms in the prosperous city-state, where they are typically packed into shared rooms and sleep on bunk beds.