People pass a public seating area marked with yellow tape to encourage social distancing, during the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), at a mall in Singapore April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore reported 623 new coronavirus cases on Friday taking the city-state’s total infections to 5050.
The health ministry said the majority of the cases were foreign workers in dormitories, which now account for more than half of the Southeast Asian nations infections.
Reporting by John Geddie; Editing by Toby Chopra
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