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SINGAPORE: The number of daily COVID-19 cases in Singapore fell to a six-month low on Thursday (September 17), with 18 new COVID-19 infections at noon.
This is the lowest number of cases since March 16, when 17 new infections were reported.
A community case with a work pass and two imported infections were among the new cases Thursday. Both imported cases were placed on a stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in its preliminary daily update.
More details of the new cases will be released Thursday night, the ministry said.
Singapore now has a total of 57,532 COVID-19 cases, most of which have recovered.
On Wednesday, a 59-year-old Singaporean listed as a COVID-19 case was removed from the case count. Known as Case 57107, the man tested negative twice after an initial positive result, the Health Ministry said.
It had been classified as an imported case on September 5 after returning from Australia and testing positive for COVID-19.
Investigations by laboratory experts and a panel of experts found that his first test result was a false positive, the MOH said.
“All the necessary public health actions had been taken before and neither the case nor its contacts had been exposed to the risk of infection due to the initial classification,” the ministry said.
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