ByteDance’s Singapore workers suffer mass food poisoning
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: Dozens of employees at ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, have been hospitalized after what seems to be a food poisoning outbreak. Then, heavy rains have caused deadly landslides In the Indian state of Kerala, known for its tea plantations. And South Africa is the latest country to welcome remote workers known as digital nomads, but in Cape Town, locals are unhappy.
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| 0:00.0 | A wave of food poisoning hits Tik Toc's offices in Singapore. |
| 0:05.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the Marketplace Morning Report and we're coming to you live from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Leanna Byrne. |
| 0:11.0 | Thanks so much for tuning in. |
| 0:12.0 | Dozens of employees at Might Dance, the company behind Tik-Toc, |
| 0:16.0 | have been hospitalized after what seems to be a food poisoning outbreak. |
| 0:20.0 | About 60 people got sick on Tuesday and 57 of them had to go to the hospital. |
| 0:25.0 | Singapore's health and food safety officials are on the case trying to figure out what happened. |
| 0:29.6 | Bite Dance is also investigating. |
| 0:31.6 | Let's talk to the BBC's Jauda Silva about this one. |
| 0:34.6 | Hi there. |
| 0:35.3 | Hi, how are you? |
| 0:36.3 | Jaud, what details do we know on this? |
| 0:38.2 | Seems quite serious. |
| 0:40.3 | Well, we're talking a major incident and one that's quite rare in Singapore, which of course prides itself on high food safety standards, |
| 0:48.5 | and it happened just after another major incident of food poisoning at the offices of a government body. |
| 0:56.8 | But at this time we're talking about something that happened at the offices of a major tech company at the Central Business District of Singapore. |
| 1:06.0 | We're talking about 60 people being hospitalized with food poisoning, |
| 1:11.0 | 17 ambulances deployed to the scene, and according to local media reports to deal with the |
| 1:18.7 | scene that was truly apocalyptic. |
| 1:21.6 | Now we know that Biden does not cook food at its headquarters. We know that food is |
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