Singapore’s Accidental Covid Experiment: Reaching Herd Immunity Safely Ethan Yang – December 23, 2020 Reading Time: 6 minutes AIER >> Daily Economy >> Science >> Government >> Crisis Print On December 14, 2020 Singapore’s Ministry of Health communicated a summary of the steps it took to contain a raging Covid-19 breakout in its migrant worker living facilities. The report itself claimed that the city-state had over 320,000 migrant workers living in cramped dormitories and around 47% or a little over 152,000 contracted Covid-19. This number includes individuals either confirmed with a PCR test , which tests for traces of the virus and is commonly employed as a nasal swab or a serology test, which tests for Covid-19 antibodies. A serology test can detect those who have been exposed in the past and have since recovered or never developed symptoms at all. In Singapore, migrant workers, mostly from other parts of Asia such as India and China, a