The novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has spread throughout Singapore’s migrant worker dormitories, clearly revealing these workers’ poor living conditions behind the country’s clean urban landscape and the absurdity of applying Singapore’s hierarchical social order when responding to infectious diseases such as COVID-19. The Singapore government, which identifies COVID-19 as distinct from community infections, has developed two response strategies that seem similar but differ in important ways. One is the “circuit breaker” strategy, which has been applied to the local community, and the other is the “lockdown” strategy, which has been applied to migrant worker dormitories. By examining the implications of this two-track containment strategy, this article aims to provide a platform to discuss the safety and health of migrant workers, a topic that has become an important social issue in the face of the pandemic, and to urge regional and global cooperation and coordination on COVID-19 challenges.