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Migrant Workers, Porous Borders Mar Southeast Asia Recovery
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January 22, 2021
A migrant workers dormitory in Singapore, April 2020. The island nation has since brought the outbreak under control with strict measures.
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In Southeast Asia, migrant workers at the bottom rungs of society have borne the brunt of Covid-19. Without real efforts to address their plight, the group could prove to be a key risk to the region’s ability to shake off the pandemic.
These workers, numbering some 10 million in Southeast Asia, have become the main vectors of recent resurgences of the coronavirus in countries like Malaysia and Thailand, even as they power the industries that produce goods such as rubber gloves and frozen foods that have soared in demand due to the pandemic.