Singapore with one of the highest infection rates in Asia

Singapore has confirmed an additional 1,426 cases of COVID-19 infection, a record daily jump that took the city-state’s tally to 8,014.

Its health ministry said the majority of the new cases were among migrant workers living in dormitories. As many as 90% of infections have reportedly been linked to these workers. Singapore’s number of deaths currently stands at 11.

The latest rise means the city-state, which has a population of 5.6 million, has seen its total confirmed cases soar from 2,800 to more than 8,000 in the past seven days, according to data from John Hopkins University.

Singapore has one of the highest rates of infections in Asia as a proportion of its population, with 555 cases per 1 million people. This is higher than Kuwait and Armenia, which have slightly smaller populations, but much lower than Qatar, which has 1,189 cases per million people and has a similarly high number of migrant workers.

Read more via BBC/World in Data/John Hopkins University