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SINGAPORE – Six new coronavirus cases were confirmed as of Wednesday noon (Dec. 9), bringing Singapore’s total to 58,291.
All six were imported cases that had received a stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said.
There were no cases of the workers’ bedrooms and none in the community.
On Wednesday, it was announced that an 83-year-old man aboard Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas cruise ship had tested positive for Covid-19.
The Health Ministry said that the man’s polymerase chain reaction test sample will be retested at the National Public Health Laboratory and a second sample will be taken for confirmatory testing.
“If other tests are also positive for Covid-19 infection, it will be included as a case in our daily case count,” the ministry added.
Epidemiological investigations and contact tracing are ongoing.
All the close contacts identified in the case have been isolated and the results obtained so far are negative.
The remaining passengers and crew will remain on board the ship until contact tracing is complete. They will only be allowed to leave the terminal at Marina Bay Cruise Center after they have taken their mandatory Covid-19 tests.
More details about the coronavirus cases will be announced Wednesday night.
On Tuesday, there were 12 new cases of coronavirus.
All 12 cases were imported and placed on a stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore, the Health Ministry said.
The new cases included a Singaporean, two permanent residents, eight work permit holders and one short-term visitor pass holder.
The Singaporean, a 17-year-old returning from Britain, experienced the onset of symptoms on Monday and was confirmed positive on Tuesday.
The other two symptomatic cases were a 40-year-old man, permanent resident; and a 30-year-old woman, holder of a work permit. They both came here from Indonesia and experienced symptoms last Saturday and Monday respectively.
The remaining nine cases were asymptomatic and detected through proactive screening and surveillance, the ministry said Tuesday.
They include the other permanent resident, a 37-year-old woman who returned from India, and seven work permit holders currently working in Singapore from Indonesia and Myanmar.
The latest case, a short-term visit pass holder who arrived from Qatar, was already receiving medical care in Singapore and had returned for further treatment.
All were tested while serving their stay-at-home notice in specialized facilities.
There were no new cases in the workers’ bedrooms and none in the community on Tuesday.
The Health Ministry said the number of new cases in the community has remained low, with a total of one case in the last week, which is linked to a previous case.
With eight cases discharged on Tuesday, 58,161 patients have made a full recovery from the disease.
A total of 23 patients remain in the hospital, none in intensive care, while 57 patients recover in community facilities.
Singapore has had 29 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 67.5 million people. More than 1.5 million people have died.
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