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SINGAPORE – 10 new coronavirus cases were confirmed as of noon on Friday (March 12), bringing Singapore’s total to 60,080.
One of these cases is in the community, while the other nine are imported cases that were placed on stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said.
There were no new cases in the dormitories of migrant workers.
More details will be announced Friday night.
On Thursday (March 11), an Indonesian foreign domestic worker who attended the same program as a previously infected person about a month ago was the only announced community case.
The 37-year-old woman was examined on Tuesday (March 9) during investigations into the other case, who was also a foreign domestic worker, the Health Ministry said.
As an additional precaution, the Ministry of Health screened all participants of the installation program for foreign domestic workers held on February 4, which was attended by both women.
According to epidemiological investigations, it is likely that they were infected separately, as they were not close contacts and there is no evidence that the two cases are related, the Ministry of Health said.
The 37-year-old woman, asymptomatic, has been classified as a dissociated community case.
He arrived in Singapore on January 20 and delivered his stay-at-home notice (SHN) at a dedicated facility until February 3. Both his Covid-19 test prior to departure in Indonesia on January 18 and his SHN swab test on February 2 came back negative for the virus.
They took her to the National Center for Infectious Diseases after her test came back positive Tuesday. Your serological test result is positive, indicating a probable past infection.
“As we cannot definitively confirm his date of infection, we will take all necessary public health actions as a precautionary measure,” the Ministry of Health said.
There were also seven imported cases confirmed on Thursday.
They came from various countries, including Qatar, India, and Malaysia.
With 28 cases discharged on Thursday, 59,924 patients have fully recovered from the disease.
A total of 21 patients remained in the hospital Thursday, including one in critical condition in the intensive care unit, while 81 recovered 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 2019, has infected more than 118.4 million people. More than 2.6 million people have died.
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