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SINGAPORE – There were six new cases of coronavirus on Saturday (November 28), including one locally transmitted community case.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) said the local case was detected from its surveillance tests of merchants in and near the Tekka Center on Thursday.
There were five imported cases, which were placed on a stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore. More details of the cases will be announced in the evening.
Saturday’s new cases bring Singapore’s total to 58,205.
This is the second local case in 19 days. Singapore had gone 16 days without a case of local transmission until Thursday, when it was announced that a 32-year-old Singaporean marine services engineer, who dined with 12 family members at the Seoul Garden in Tampines Mall, tested positive for the coronavirus.
Experts have told The Straits Times that a case is unlikely to lead to a major increase in cases here, as their close contacts have been quarantined, although there could be a small pool of second-generation cases.
It is believed that their rapid detection and subsequent contact tracing would stop the chain of transmission.
The four cases on Friday were all imported, from India and Indonesia.
A total of 31 patients remain in the hospital, while 29 recover in community facilities. A patient is in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
To date, Singapore has had 28 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.
Globally, more than 61.6 million people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and 1.4 million people have died.
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