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SINGAPORE – Among the 768 new cases of Covid-19 announced on Friday (May 8) is a staff member of a nursing home operated by Ren Ci Hospital at 10 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8.
The 34-year-old Filipino woman is a Home Resident Care Associate (RCA) who was confirmed to have Covid-19 on Thursday after being examined as part of ongoing surveillance testing in nursing homes by the Ministry of Health (MOH), the ministry said on Friday.
She is currently protected in an isolation room at the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID).
Ren Ci Hospital said in a Facebook post on Friday that before being admitted to NCID, she had gone to work where she had complied with improved preventive measures in the nursing home, including the use of personal protective equipment when caring for to residents.
The hospital said it performed a deep cleaning and disinfection of the affected areas and will continue to clean more frequently.
Ren Ci Hospital deputy clinical director David Ng said: “Ren Ci has two nursing homes and all staff have been evaluated as part of the extensive testing exercise by the Ministry of Health. RCA was the only staff who tested positive .
“Since then, we have worked closely with the Ministry of Health to evaluate nursing home residents she cared for, as well as residents of neighboring homes. Her test results are negative.”
The Ministry of Health also announced the closure of three groups: Dover Court International School, ICA Building, and Lee Ah Mooi Old Age Home, as there have been no more cases linked to these groups for the past 28 days, or two incubation periods.
A record daily number of patients, 328, were discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities.
Foreign workers living in dormitories continue to account for the majority of new cases in Singapore, accounting for 750 of Friday’s cases.
As of Friday, 19,232 of 323,000 dormitory migrant workers, or nearly 6 percent, have tested positive for Covid-19.
There were seven other new cases among foreign workers who did not live in dormitories.
The ministry also announced five new groups at 25 Kaki Bukit Industrial Terrace, 63 Senoko Drive in Sembawang, 53 Sungei Kadut Loop, 11 Tech Park Crescent in Tuas, and 57 Tuas View Walk 2.
There are 11 new cases in the community, of which nine are Singaporean, one is a permanent resident and one is a work pass holder.
Citizens include a five-year-old girl and two eight-year-old girls, a boy and a girl, all linked to known cases, as well as a 65-year-old cleaning woman at Changi airport.
New community cases have dropped to an average of 10 per day in the past week, from 12 per day in the previous week. The average daily number of unrelated cases in the community also decreased slightly to five from six in the same period.
There are no new imported cases. The total number of coronavirus cases in Singapore now stands at 21,707. The total number of those who have fully recovered from the virus and have been discharged is 2,034.
There are 1,245 confirmed cases still in the hospital, with 22 critically ill in the intensive care unit. Another 18,402 are in community facilities.
Twenty have died of Covid-19 complications and six who tested positive have died of other causes.
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