Hillion Mall, Little India Store Added to List of Places Visited by Covid-19 Infected Patients, Health News & Top Stories



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SINGAPORE – The Hillion Mall on Petir Road and the Haniffa store on Dunlop Street were visited by Covid-19 patients while they were infectious, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Saturday (September 19).

The two locations were added to a list of places visited by community cases during their infectious period. The mall was visited on September 15 and the department store was visited on September 7.

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. to visit.

The full list of locations and times can be found on the website of the Ministry of Health.

The ministry has said that close contacts would have already been reported and that there is no need to avoid these places as they would have been cleaned up if necessary.

On Saturday, 15 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed, including five imported cases that arrived from Iran and India between September 6 and 15.

The only new case from the community is that of a 22-year-old Singaporean who is currently unrelated.

The remaining nine cases are foreign workers living in dormitories, of whom six were previously identified as contacts from previous cases and had been quarantined. The other three were detected through surveillance tests, such as routine testing of workers staying in dormitories.

This brings Singapore’s total cases to 57.558.


Haniffa store on Dunlop Street that was visited by Covid-19 patients. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM GOOGLE MAPS

The average number of new daily cases in the community in a week has decreased from two cases two weeks ago to one in the last week.

The number of unrelated cases in the community has been stable at one case per day for the past two weeks.

With 71 cases discharged on Saturday, 57,127 have made a full recovery from the disease. A total of 27 patients remain in the hospital, while 362 recover in community facilities. None are in intensive care.

Singapore has had 27 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.



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