Singapore, Japan Cases Jump; India Extends Lockdown

BANGKOK (AP) – Singapore has reported its biggest daily jump in new coronavirus infections. Most of the new cases are linked to foreign workers living in crowded dormitories. Tens of thousands of foreign workers in the city-state are quarantined in their dorms and some were moved elsewhere to reduce crowding. A government minister says the three remaining weeks of Singapore’s partial lockdown will be “a critical window” in preventing large-scale spread. Elsewhere around the Asia-Pacific region, a U.S. sailor who was among hundreds of infections on the USS Theodore Roosevelt has died. India is extending the world’s largest lockdown into May, and almost 400 new cases were reported in Japan.