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SINGAPORE – Several shopping malls, Nex, VivoCity and Suntec City, were among the new places visited by infectious patients with Covid-19, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Thursday (September 3).
Also recently added to the list of places visited by infectious patients: Bras Basah Complex, Geylang Serai Malay Market and Food Center and Woodlands Civic Center.
The Ministry of Health provides the list of places that patients infected with Covid-19 visited for at least 30 minutes and the times they visited so that the people who were in those places closely monitor their health for two weeks from the date of your visit.
The full list of locations and times can be found on the website of the Ministry of Health.
It has been said that close contacts would have already been notified and it is not necessary to avoid these places as they would have been cleaned up if necessary.
Meanwhile, two new bedroom clusters were announced on Thursday.
Cochrane Lodge II at 49 Admiralty Road West was linked to 14 cases, while eight newly confirmed cases were linked to 10 previous cases to form a group in the Westlite Toh Guan dormitory.
Two community cases were also announced on Thursday.
Both cases are currently unrelated and were detected as a result of proactive surveillance and detection, although they do not show symptoms.
The two were detected as a result of the routine tests listed on workers in the construction, marine and process sectors living outside of bedrooms.
The Health Ministry said epidemiological investigations of the cases are underway. Their close contacts have also been isolated and quarantined, and will be evaluated at the beginning and end of their quarantine period.
Among the five imported cases announced on Thursday were a Singaporean who returned to Singapore from Bangladesh on Monday, a permanent resident who arrived from India on August 22, and a Singaporean who arrived from the United Arab Emirates on August 22.
Another imported patient is a long-term visit pass holder who arrived from India on 23 August.
The remaining imported patient is a current work permit holder who arrived from the Philippines on August 22.
All five had been placed on 14-day stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore, and had been tested while delivering their notices at dedicated facilities, the Health Ministry said.
Migrant workers living in dormitories made up the remaining 41 of 48 new coronavirus patients announced on Thursday, bringing Singapore’s total to 56,908.
Of these, 22 had previously been identified as contacts from previous cases and had already been quarantined to prevent further transmission. They were tested during quarantine to determine their status.
The remaining 19 cases were detected through surveillance tests, such as the routine tests listed every two weeks of workers living in dormitories.
The average number of new daily cases in the community in a week has increased from two cases two weeks ago to three in the last week.
The number of unrelated cases in the community in one week has also increased, from a daily average of one case to two during the same period.
With 137 cases discharged on Thursday, 56,013 patients have made a full recovery from the disease.
A total of 52 patients remain in hospital, none in intensive care, while 801 recover in community facilities.
Singapore has had 27 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.
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