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SINGAPORE – 12 new coronavirus cases were confirmed at noon on Sunday (Nov. 22), bringing Singapore’s total to 58,160.
All 12 were imported cases that had been placed on stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said.
This is the twelfth consecutive day that there were no cases of local transmission.
It is the longest stretch without a community case since the first coronavirus case was reported in Singapore on January 23. There were 12 days between the first reported case, which was imported, and the first community cases registered on February 4.
More details will be announced Sunday night, the Health Ministry said.
On Saturday, the Ministry of Health announced five new cases of coronavirus, all imported.
They were placed on stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore and were tested during that period.
Four were asymptomatic and detected by screening and surveillance, while one was symptomatic.
Of the five cases on Saturday, one was a Singaporean who returned from Mexico, while another was a permanent Singaporean resident who returned from Britain.
Two others were work permit holders currently working in Singapore from the Philippines.
The remaining case was a holder of a long-term visit pass that arrived from Oman.
The Health Ministry also said that Bugis Street and Kopitiam @ Jurong East have been added to the list of places visited by Covid-19 patients when they were still infectious.
The Ministry of Health provides the list of places that infectious Covid-19 patients visited for at least 30 minutes and the times they visited so that people who were in those places at the same time closely monitor their health for two weeks at a time. from the date of your visit. .
It has been said that close contacts would have already been notified and it is not necessary to avoid these places as they would have been cleaned up if necessary.
Overall, the number of new cases in the community has remained low, with no new cases in the last week, the Ministry of Health noted.
Six more cases of coronavirus infection were discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities.
In total, 58,049 people have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged from hospitals or community care facilities.
As of Saturday, there were 22 confirmed cases still in the hospital. Of these, most were stable or improving, but one was in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
Another 34 were isolated and cared for in community facilities.
Singapore has had 28 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 56.8 million people. More than 1.36 million people have died.
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