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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed 13 new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore on Friday (February 26), bringing the country’s total case count to 59,913.
There are no new cases of locally transmitted infection and all cases are imported.
“Among the new cases today, 12 are asymptomatic and were detected from our detection and proactive surveillance, while one was symptomatic,” the ministry said.
Of the 13 imported cases, one is from Singapore and four are permanent residents, including a 10-year-old girl who returned from India and the United Kingdom.
Two others are dependent pass holders and a work pass holder who arrived from Myanmar. Another is a long-term visitor pass holder who came from India.
The remaining five cases are work permit holders who came from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, of which four are foreign domestic workers. A 27-year-old woman with a work permit who arrived from Indonesia is the only symptomatic case on Friday.
The 13 new imported cases were placed on the stay-at-home notice upon arrival here and tested while your notice was being delivered.
MINSA said that the number of new cases in the community has increased from one in the previous week to four in the last week. The number of unrelated cases in the community has also increased from one in the previous week to two in the last week.
99% of all cases have recovered, 1 in ICU
With 18 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Friday, 59,803 cases, or 99.8 percent of the total, have fully recovered from the infection.
Most of the 15 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, with one of them in the intensive care unit.
A total of 66 patients, with mild symptoms or clinically well, but still test positive, are isolated and cared for in community facilities.
In addition to 29 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.
Among the 67 confirmed cases reported from February 20 to 26, 36 cases tested positive on serological tests, 18 tested negative and 13 are pending.
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