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SINGAPORE – 15 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed as of noon on Saturday (September 19), bringing Singapore’s total to 57.558.
They included a community case, which is from Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Saturday.
There were also five imported cases that were included in stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore.
More details will be announced Saturday night.
On Friday, 11 new coronavirus cases were confirmed, the lowest daily figure in more than six months since March 12, when there were nine cases.
The only new case in the community reported on Friday is currently unrelated.
He is a 30-year-old Singaporean man who was confirmed positive on Thursday, the Health Ministry said.
There was also a new imported case: a work permit holder who returned from India on September 6. She had been placed on stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore and was screened while serving her notice.
A giant outlet at Sunshine Place at Choa Chu Kang Avenue 3 and state courts were added to the places visited by Covid-19 patients while they were still infectious, the Health Ministry said on Friday.
The ministry provides the list of places that infectious Covid-19 patients visited for at least 30 minutes and the times of their visits so that those who were also in these places during the specified periods will closely monitor their health for two weeks starting. of the date of your visit.
The full list of locations and times can be found on the website of the Ministry of Health.
The ministry has said that close contacts would have already been reported and that there is no need to avoid these places as they would have been cleaned up if necessary.
The remaining nine new cases announced Friday were migrant workers staying in dormitories.
Among them, five were identified as contacts from previous cases and had already been quarantined to prevent further transmission. They were tested during their quarantine period, the Health Ministry said.
The other four cases were detected through surveillance tests, such as routine checklist of workers staying in dormitories.
The Ministry of Manpower, the Building and Construction Authority, the Health Promotion Board and the Economic Development Board said in a joint statement on Friday that about 5,700 workers who must undergo routine tests listed have not yet have done and will not be able to return to work until then.
The average number of new daily cases in the community in a week has decreased from two cases two weeks ago to one in the last week.
The number of unrelated cases in the community has been stable at less than one case per day in the past two weeks.
With 32 cases discharged on Friday, 57,056 have fully recovered from the disease. A total of 38 patients remain in the hospital, while 407 recover in community facilities. None are in intensive care.
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 30.6 million people. More than 955,000 people have died.
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