Hassan is a migrant worker from Bangladesh currently working and living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He shares a one-bedroom flat with 11 people, all under quarantine after one of his flatmates was tested positive for COVID-19 after a visit to the hospital following a cough and a high fever .
Hassan states that the police visited that evening and placed the building under quarantine. Two days later, a doctor came to test the entire building and, another three days later, Hassan discovered that he and four other flatmates had also tested positive.
“I don’t have any symptoms as such - sometimes I feel like I have a sore-throat at night but then I think my brain is tricking me,” he says in an interview on the phone, one week after he tested positive. “What I am more worried about is money.”
