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SINGAPORE – 44 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed as of noon on Monday (January 25), all of which were imported.
The imported cases were placed on a stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said.
There were no new cases in the community for the third day in a row, and none in workers’ bedrooms.
Monday’s new cases bring Singapore’s total to 59,352.
More details will be announced Monday night.
On Sunday, Singapore reported 48 imported cases of Covid-19, a maximum not seen since March 23 of last year.
The same number of imported cases, then the highest, was reported that day in March last year, during a wave of infections among Singaporeans and permanent residents returning from abroad.
Among the new cases, 41 had no symptoms and were detected through proactive screening and surveillance, while seven were symptomatic, the Health Ministry said.
The new cases also included four permanent residents of Singapore. Two returned from India, while the remaining two returned from Indonesia and Malaysia.
Four cases are dependent pass holders who arrived from France, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
One is a holder of a long-term visit pass that came from India.
Two patients are holders of student passes who arrived from Egypt and India.
Eleven are work pass holders who came from Bangladesh, Colombia, France, India, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates.
There were 22 work permit holders among the new cases that arrived from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and the Philippines. Ten of them are foreign domestic workers.
Three new cases are holders of short-term visitation passes, two of whom come from India to visit their children here, while the third came from the United States for a work project.
The latest new case is a member of the crew of a ship with a special pass, who arrived on board a ship from Malaysia and did not disembark. He was rushed to the hospital when he developed symptoms and later tested positive for Covid-19.
A new location, the Li Li Cheng supermarket at 273C Punggol Place, was added to the list of public places visited by community cases when they were infectious. The supermarket was visited for the confirmed case on January 17.
The number of new cases in the community increased to 15 in the last seven days, from eight cases in the previous seven.
The number of unrelated cases in the community dropped to three cases from four cases during the same time period.
With 26 cases discharged on Sunday, 59,026 patients have fully recovered from the disease.
A total of 50 patients remain in the hospital, none in the intensive care unit, while 188 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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