‘Masks, Covid-19 tests can’t fix crammed living woes at Hong Kong domestic worker dorms’

Indonesian domestic helper Susan always avoided rolling around at night because she worried that even a slight twitch could wake up other residents sleeping shoulder to shoulder by her side in a jam-packed room. Susan (not her real name) was staying in one of the estimated hundreds of boarding houses in Hong Kong two weeks ago, when the first in a string of Covid-19 infections hit multiple helpers’ accommodation in the city. Unlike migrant worker dormitories in Singapore, which offer long…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3098008/masks-covid-19-tests-cant-fix-crammed-living-woes-hong-kong