Singapore confirms seven new cases, five imported



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Commuters leaving a train station in Singapore.
Commuters leaving a train station in Singapore. (PHOTO: Reuters / Edgar Su)

SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed seven new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore as of Wednesday (November 4), bringing the country’s total to 58,036.

Of them, five are imported. “All new cases today are asymptomatic and were detected from our proactive evaluation and surveillance,” said MINSA.

The remaining two reside in dormitories of foreign workers and were detected through surveillance tests.

Among the imported cases, one is the holder of the pass of a dependent who arrived from the United Arab Emirates. The remaining four cases are currently employed in Singapore: one is the holder of a work pass that came from Switzerland, while three are holders of a work permit that came from Indonesia and Myanmar.

The five imported cases were included in the stay-at-home notice upon arrival here and tested while the notice was being delivered.

The Health Ministry noted that the number of new cases in the community has remained low, with a total of one case in the last week, which is currently not linked.

99% of all cases have recovered; none in ICU

With one more patient discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Wednesday, 57,938 cases, or 99.8 percent of the total, have fully recovered from the infection.

Most of the 44 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while none are in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

A total of 26 patients with mild symptoms or who are clinically well but still test positive are isolated and cared for in community facilities.

In addition to 28 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 four others whose deaths were attributed to disease. coronary. heart disease.

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