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SINGAPORE – 11 new coronavirus cases were confirmed as of noon on Sunday (February 28), including one in a migrant worker dormitory.
There were no community cases, said the Ministry of Health (MINSA).
The remaining 10 were imported cases that had received a stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore.
The new cases bring Singapore’s total to 59,936.
More details will be announced Sunday night.
On Saturday, the Health Ministry reported that a 64-year-old Singaporean man died of complications from Covid-19 on Friday after contracting the coronavirus while living in Indonesia.
The ministry said on Saturday that the man had been living in Indonesia since March 17 last year and had a history of hyperlipidemia or abnormally high levels of fat in the blood.
He first tested positive for the coronavirus on January 26 while in Indonesia and was hospitalized there the next day.
He was then medically evacuated to the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) here for treatment on January 29. A test taken on January 30 came back positive for the virus.
As it was already a registered case abroad, it was not included in Singapore’s Covid-19 case count, the Health Ministry said.
NCID has contacted the man’s family and is assisting them.
The 12 new coronavirus cases on Saturday were imported cases that had been placed on stay-at-home notices or isolated upon arrival in Singapore.
No new cases were reported from the community or within the dormitories of migrant workers.
The new imported cases included two Singaporeans who returned from the United Arab Emirates and the United States, respectively, two dependent pass holders who arrived from India and Myanmar, three work pass holders from Brazil, India and the Netherlands, and five Indian work permit holders. , Indonesia and Malaysia, four of which are foreign domestic workers.
Of the 12 new cases, 11 were asymptomatic and detected through proactive screening and surveillance, while one, a 40-year-old woman with a work permit from India, exhibited symptoms.
He began developing symptoms on Thursday and tested positive on Friday.
Meanwhile, 13 more cases have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities, and 59,801 patients have fully recovered from the disease.
A total of 15 patients remain in the hospital, including one in critical condition, while 65 are recovering in community facilities.
Singapore has had 29 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.
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