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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MS) confirmed on Monday (May 11) 486 new cases of coronavirus in Singapore, with a total of 23,787 and 504 more recoveries.
The ministry also reported two deaths, one from complications from COVID-19, Singapore’s twenty-second death, and the other from a heart attack. The latter was confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus after death.
The 21st death of the city-state from COVID-19 complications is a 68-year-old Singaporean man who died on Monday. The man, identified as Case 1305, was confirmed to be infected on April 5 and had a history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
It was first identified as an unrelated case, but was later linked to a family member identified as Patient 1660, a 65-year-old Singaporean woman who tested positive for the virus on April 8.
“The National University Hospital has communicated with his family and is providing assistance,” the ministry said.
A 53-year-old Indian citizen, who died Saturday of a heart attack due to coronary thrombosis, was confirmed to be infected the day after his death. The man, identified as Case 23550, had been sent to the emergency department of Sengkang General Hospital after suffering cardiac arrest.
Of the 486 new cases, 481, or about 99 percent, are foreign workers living in dormitories.
The lower number of cases on Monday is partly due to fewer tests being processed in a test lab, as it is recalibrating its device for one of the test kits, the ministry said a day after announcing that they were verified. 35 cases were negative upon retesting.
The Ministry of Health also noted that the number of new cases in the community, as well as among foreign workers residing outside the dormitories, has decreased, from an average of nine cases per day in the previous week to an average of eight per day in the last week. .
Similarly, the number of unrelated cases in the community has also declined, he added, from an average of five cases per day in the prior week to an average of three per day in the past week.
The Ministry of Health also identified three additional groups: Tuas South Apartments at 69R Tuas South Avenue 1, 47 Senoko Drive, and 566 Woodlands Road.
So far, more than 50 groups linked to foreign worker residences have been identified, including Singapore’s largest group of 2,543 cases linked to S11 Dormitory @ Punggol, followed by Tuas View Dormitory linked to 1,223 cases and Sungei Tengah Lodge linked to 1,159. cases.
All three are among the 25 dorms that have been published as isolation areas and represent 23 percent of the total of 21,410 infected cases in all dorms. Some 400,000 foreign workers live in dormitories here in Singapore.
More than 3,200 patients discharged in total
With the additional 504 patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities, a total of 3,225 here have fully recovered from the infection, the ministry said Monday.
Most of the 1,093 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while 24 are in critical condition in the intensive care unit, compared to 22 on Sunday.
A total of 19,448 patients who have mild symptoms or are clinically well but still test positive for the virus are isolated and cared for at community facilities.
In addition to 21 who died from COVID-19 complications, seven patients who tested positive for the virus died from unrelated causes, including three whose deaths were attributed to a heart attack.
“Only the cases in which the attending physician or pathologist attributes the primary or underlying cause of death as a consequence of COVID-19 infection will be added to the COVID-19 death count,” said the Ministry of Health, who He added that the practice is consistent with international practices. to classify deaths.
In 2018, 86 male foreign workers aged 25-59 died from heart disease in Singapore.
As of May 4, the ministry had conducted 175,604 swab tests, of which 123,525 were performed on unique individuals.
This translates to approximately 30,800 swabs made by 1 million total inhabitants, and around 21,600 unique individuals rubbed by 1 million total inhabitants.
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