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SINGAPORE – 10 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed as of noon on Friday (October 2), bringing Singapore’s total to 57,794.
This is the lowest daily figure since March 12, which had nine cases.
Walking On Sunshine, a hairdresser in Orchard Central, was added to the list of places visited by Covid-19 patients when they were still infectious, the ministry said.
Provides the list of places that Covid-19 infected patients visited for at least 30 minutes and the times they visited so that people who were in those places at the same time closely monitor their health for two weeks from the date of your visit. . The full list can be found here.
Close contacts would have already been notified and there is no need to avoid these places as they would have been cleaned up if necessary, the ministry said.
The 10 new cases on Friday brought Singapore’s total to 57,794.
They include a community case, which is the holder of a work permit, five imported cases and four migrant workers living in dormitories.
Of the five imported cases, a Singaporean, a permanent resident and a dependent’s pass holder arrived from India between September 16 and 20.
A short-term pass holder, who is a six-year-old girl, and a work permit holder arrived from Indonesia on September 18 and 20, respectively.
All imported cases were placed on stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore, the ministry said.
Of the four migrant workers, one had previously been identified as a contact from previous cases and was already in quarantine to prevent further transmission.
He tested positive for Covid-19 during his quarantine period.
The remaining three cases were detected through surveillance tests, the ministry said.
The number of new daily cases in the community has remained stable at an average of less than one case per day in the last two weeks.
The number of unrelated cases in the community has also remained stable at an average of less than one case per day during the same period.
With 22 cases discharged yesterday, 57,519 patients have fully recovered from the disease.
A total of 48 patients remain in the hospital, none in intensive care, while 185 recover in community facilities.
Singapore has had 27 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.
Globally, the virus outbreak, which began in December last year, has infected more than 34.5 million people. More than a million people have died.
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