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SINGAPORE – 75 new coronavirus cases were confirmed as of noon on Wednesday (September 9), bringing Singapore’s total to 57,166.
They included a community case, which has a work pass, said the Ministry of Health (MINSA).
There were also 14 imported cases, which had been included in stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore.
The remaining 60 new cases were bedroom-living patients. Of these, 31 were from the Westlite Toh Guan dormitory, the vast majority of which were assessed during the quarantine.
The other 29 dormitory cases were detected through surveillance tests, such as the routine tests carried out by the Ministry of Health every two weeks on dormitory workers.
More details will be announced Wednesday night.
On Tuesday, the Health Ministry announced that at least one infectious coronavirus patient had visited various locations at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) between August 25 and 28.
Three locations at the university were added to a list of places visited by coronavirus patients while they were infectious.
They are Quad Cafe at NTU’s School of Biological Sciences, Paik’s Bibim Korean Restaurant at NTU’s North Spine Plaza, and North Spine Food Court.
Also recently added to the list were foodcourt Essen at The Pinnacle @ Duxton, Yuhua Market and Hawker Center and Apgujeong Hair Studio in Jem.
The Ministry of Health provides the list of places that patients with infectious Covid-19 visited for at least 30 minutes and the times they visited them, so that people who were in those places at the same time closely monitor their health for two weeks from the date of your visit. to visit.
The full list of locations and times can be found on the website of the Ministry of Health.
The ministry has said that close contacts would have already been reported and that there is no need to avoid these places as they would have been cleaned up if necessary.
A new group in a dorm was also announced on Tuesday. The Health Ministry said that one of the recently confirmed cases was linked to 13 previous cases, forming a new group at S11 Dormitory @ Punggol, located at 2 Seletar North Link.
Among the 47 new cases reported Tuesday, there was one imported case.
The one-year-old Singaporean baby arrived from India on August 24. A 14-day stay-at-home notice was sent to you upon arrival here and was tested while complying with the notice at a specialized facility.
Migrant workers staying in dormitories made up the remaining 46 new coronavirus patients announced Tuesday.
Of these 46 cases, 25 had previously been identified as previous case contacts and had already been quarantined to prevent further transmission. They were tested during their quarantine period.
The remaining 21 cases were detected through surveillance tests, such as the routine tests listed every two weeks of workers staying in dormitories.
The average number of new daily cases in the community in a week has decreased from three cases two weeks ago to two in the last week.
However, the number of unrelated cases in the community in one week has increased from a daily average of one case to two cases during the same period.
With 53 cases discharged on Tuesday, 56,446 patients have made a full recovery from the disease.
A total of 48 patients remained in the hospital and none in intensive care, while 555 recovered in community facilities.
Singapore has had 27 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.
Globally, the virus outbreak, which began in December last year, has infected more than 27.7 million people. More than 900,000 people have died.
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