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SINGAPORE – The Republic reported a nine-month high of 42 imported cases on Sunday night (January 10), more than half of which were work permit holders arriving from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. .
Five of the 24 work permit holders were foreign domestic workers.
The other 18 cases comprised two Singaporeans, two permanent residents (PR), six dependent pass holders, four work pass holders, one long term visit pass holder, one short term visit pass holder and two holders of a special pass.
A total of 40 cases were asymptomatic.
With the most recent cases, Singapore has reported a total of 58,907 Covid-19 infections.
All new imported cases were placed on stay-at-home notice or isolated upon arrival in Singapore, and analyzed during this period, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Sunday night.
The two Singaporeans had returned from Malaysia while both PRs were arriving from India.
The holder of the long-term visit pass and the holder of the short-term visit pass also came from India, while the holders of the six-dependent pass came from Austria, India, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates.
The two special pass holders are seafarers who arrived aboard vessels other than Myanmar and Indonesia.
They had been tested on board and had not disembarked before being examined.
They were taken to hospital when they tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, the Health Ministry said.
Forty-two is the highest number of imported cases since March 28, when the same number was reported.
However, the number of new cases in the community has dropped from 10 cases in the previous week to eight cases last week, the Health Ministry said.
The number of unrelated cases in the community has increased from four cases in the previous week to five cases in the last week.
With 25 cases discharged on Sunday, 58,621 patients have made a full recovery from the disease.
A total of 60 patients remain hospitalized, one of them in the intensive care unit, while 182 recover in community facilities.
Singapore has had 29 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.
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