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SINGAPORE – Twelve new coronavirus cases have been confirmed as of Sunday (October 4) afternoon, including two community cases and six imported cases.
Ten of the cases are asymptomatic and detected by proactive screening, while two had symptoms.
The latest increase brings Singapore’s total number of cases to 57,812.
One of the Community cases is a holder of a work pass, while the other is a holder of a work permit.
One of them was detected under the enhanced community testing of the Ministry of Health (MOH) of all persons aged 13 years and over who were diagnosed with an acute respiratory infection on the first presentation to a doctor.
The other community case was detected as a result of routine testing of workers in the construction, marine and process sectors living outside the dormitories. He is asymptomatic, the Health Ministry said.
Contact tracing is underway. All identified close contacts have been isolated and quarantined, and will be tested for the Covid-19 virus.
Regarding imported cases, the Health Ministry said that all were already in quarantine before testing positive.
Two of them are permanent residents of Singapore who returned to Singapore from India on September 22 and 23.
Three other cases are holders of work passes or work permits currently working in Singapore. All three arrived from the Netherlands on September 22, the Philippines on September 22 and Indonesia on October 1.
The last imported case is a clerk’s pass holder who flew in from Japan on September 22.
The four remaining cases on Sunday are made up of workers living in dormitories.
All of them were detected by surveillance tests, such as routine biweekly tests of workers living in dormitories.
Overall, the number of new cases in the community has increased from an average of less than one case per day in the previous week to an average of two cases in the last week.
The number of unrelated cases in the community has also increased from an average of less than one case per day in the previous week to an average of one case in the last two weeks.
With 13 cases discharged on Sunday, 57,560 patients have made a full recovery from the disease.
A total of 43 patients remain in the hospital, none in intensive care, while 167 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 35 million people. More than a million people have died.
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