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SINGAPORE – 18 new coronavirus cases were confirmed as of Tuesday noon (Nov. 24), all of which were imported.
Imported cases were placed on stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said.
Among them, two are Singaporean and 14 are job pass holders who are currently employed in Singapore, including 13 foreign domestic workers.
There were no new community cases and none of the workers’ bedrooms for the fourteenth day in a row.
This is the longest stretch without a community case since the first coronavirus case was reported in Singapore on January 23. There were 12 days between the first reported case, which was imported, and the first community cases registered on February 4.
Tuesday’s new cases bring Singapore’s total to 58,183.
More details will be announced Tuesday night.
Five new cases of coronavirus were confirmed on Monday, all imported.
This made it the thirteenth day in a row that there were no new community cases and no worker bedrooms.
New imported patients were placed on stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore, the Health Ministry said.
They were asymptomatic and confirmed positive on Sunday.
Of the five new cases, there was one Singaporean: a 16-year-old girl who returned from India.
Three of the imported cases are work permit holders, all women, aged 29 to 39, who returned from Indonesia.
The last imported case is a short-term visiting pass holder. The 58-year-old man had returned from France.
With four cases discharged on Monday, 58,056 patients have fully recovered from the disease.
A total of 36 patients remain in the hospital, while 30 recover in community facilities. A patient is in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
Singapore has had 28 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 58.6 million people. More than 1.3 million people have died.
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