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SINGAPORE – Non-Singaporean travelers arriving from India make up the largest number of imported COVID-19 cases during a five-month period here, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said in a written parliamentary response on Friday (September 4) .
Between April 1 and August 31, 183 cases arriving from India tested positive for the virus here, representing about 63 percent of the total 292 imported non-Singaporean cases that the city-state saw in it. period.
This is followed by the Philippines with 46 non-Singaporean imported cases, and Indonesia with 15, said Gan, who is also the co-chair of the multi-ministerial COVID-19 task force.
Of the 292 cases, 56 are permanent residents, 110 are holders of work passes, 99 are holders of long-term visits and 27 are holders of short-term visit passes.
Gan was responding to questions posed by Hougang SMC MP Dennis Tan from the Workers’ Party.
On Friday, the Ministry of Health announced 40 more cases of COVID-19, three of which, including one Singaporean, were classified as imported cases from India.
The city-state now has a total of 56,948 COVID-19 cases, of which more than 98 percent have fully recovered, while 27 have died.
Meanwhile, India has 3.94 million cases, while the Philippines and Indonesia have more than 232,000 and more than 187,000 cases, respectively.
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