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SINGAPORE – 42 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed as of Saturday (Sept. 12), bringing Singapore’s total to 57,357, the Health Ministry said.
Forty-one of the cases were asymptomatic.
Of the new cases, 10 were imported and they were given notice to stay at home when they arrived here. Two are Singaporean and five are permanent residents who returned to Singapore from India on August 30 and 31.
Two other imported patients are work pass holders who arrived separately from Germany on August 30 and the Philippines on August 29.
The remaining case is a short-term visit pass holder who is the spouse of a Singaporean who arrived from India on September 5.
There were four community cases that included a permanent resident, a work pass holder and two work permit holders, the Health Ministry said.
Migrant workers living in dormitories made up the remaining 28 new coronavirus patients announced on Saturday.
Among the 28, 16 were 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 12 cases were detected through surveillance tests, such as the routine tests listed every two weeks of workers living in dormitories.
One of the patients staying in the dormitories is from Avery Lodge Dormitory in Jurong, a group that had a total of 68 confirmed cases as of Friday.
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.
The number of unrelated cases in the community in one week has also decreased from a daily average of two cases to one during the same period.
With 92 cases discharged on Saturday, 56,684 patients have made a full recovery from the disease.
A total of 54 patients remained in the hospital on Saturday, none in intensive care, while 577 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 28.6 million people. More than 919,000 people have died.
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