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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health announced on Sunday (September 20) four new imported cases of Covid-19.
One traveler each came from Iran and Germany and two cases came from the Philippines. They and were placed on stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore.
All four were among 18 new coronavirus cases confirmed Sunday.
There was a case in the community, a holder of a work permit, who is currently not linked to other cases.
He was detected during routine tests on the roster of workers in the construction, marine and process sectors living outside the dormitories, and was detained even though he was asymptomatic.
The remaining 13 cases are foreign workers housed in dormitories. Five of them were previously identified as contacts from previous cases and were quarantined. The other eight were detected through surveillance tests, such as routine roster testing of dormitory workers.
Telecommunications service provider Zero1, located in the Trivex building on Burn Road in the Tai Seng area, was one of the places that Covid-19 patients visited while they were infectious, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Sunday. .
The location was added to a list of places visited by community cases during their infectious period. Zero1 was visited on September 13 from 01:05 to 02:40.
The Ministry of Health provides the list of locations that infectious Covid-19 patients visited for at least 30 minutes and the hours they visited.
People who were in these places at the same time are advised to closely monitor their health for two weeks from the date of their 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 notified and that there is no need to avoid these places as they would have been cleaned up if necessary.
Singapore’s total number of cases now stands at 57,576.
The number of unrelated cases in the community has been stable, averaging less than one case per day for the past two weeks.
Thirty-nine cases were discharged on Sunday, making a total of 57,166 who have fully recovered from the disease. A total of 30 patients remain in the hospital, while 338 recover in community facilities. None are in intensive care.
Singapore has had 27 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive died from other causes.
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