Six new cases in S’pore, 2-month-old child among imported cases



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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed six new COVID-19 cases, the lowest daily number of cases since the end of the circuit breaker period, through noon on Saturday (October 3), raising the count. Singapore’s total cases at 57,800.

The last time Singapore reported a minimum of six new cases per day was on March 10, before the blackout period in April and May.

There is one case, a Singaporean, in the community. There are four imported cases, which were placed on the Notice of Stay at Home upon arrival in Singapore.

The only community case, a 44-year-old man, is currently unrelated. “Case 57947 was detected under our enhanced community tests to evaluate all persons 13 years of age and older who were diagnosed with an acute respiratory infection (ARI) on the first presentation to a physician,” said the Ministry of Health.

Among the four imported cases, one (case 57946) is a Singaporean who returned to Singapore from India on September 21. and two (cases 57943 and 57944) are work permit holders currently employed in Singapore who arrived from Indonesia on September 21. The remaining case (case 57945), a two-month-old boy whose father is a permanent resident of Singapore, is a holder of a short-term visitation pass who arrived from Indonesia on September 25.

All of them had received a 14-day stay-at-home notice (SHN) upon arrival in Singapore, and were assessed while serving their SHN in specialized facilities.

In general, the number of new cases in the community has increased from an average of less than one case per day in the previous week to an average of one case in the last week. The number of unrelated cases in the community has remained stable at an average of less than one case per day in the last two weeks.

99% of all cases have recovered.

With 28 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Saturday, 57,562 cases, or 99.6 percent of the total, have made a full recovery from the infection.

Most of the 46 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while none are in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

A total of 165 patients with mild symptoms or who are clinically well but still test positive are isolated and cared for in community facilities.

In addition to 27 patients who died from complications of COVID-19, another 15 who tested positive for the virus were determined to have died from unrelated causes, including three whose deaths were attributed to a heart attack and another four whose deaths were attributed to coronary heart disease. . heart disease.

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