Malaysia frets over foreign worker housing as Covid-19 infections surge,


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KUALA LUMPUR - A production worker at the world's biggest maker of rubber gloves Top Glove lamented that conditions in his Malaysian lodging provided by the company are terrible. "Each room has about eight to twelve workers, and we share one bathroom," the young migrant worker told The Straits Times, on condition of anonymity. "I am not comfortable with the accommodation as there are so many workers in one room and it gets dirty," he said. At times, water wasn't available to clean the bathrooms, he said. As Malaysian authorities grapple with trying to reduce the number of Covid-19 cases...