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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore as of Wednesday (October 7), bringing the country’s total to 57,840.
All but two of the 10 new cases are asymptomatic and proactively detected, the Health Ministry said.
Of these, four are cases residing in the dormitories of foreign workers, where one had previously been identified as a contact from previous cases and had already been quarantined and tested. Three were detected through surveillance tests.
The remaining six are imported cases, half of which came from Myanmar. All had received a 14-day stay-at-home notice upon arrival here and were evaluated while serving the notice at specialized facilities.
Overall, 20% of new cases have no established links and epidemiological investigations are ongoing.
“In the meantime, all identified close contacts of the cases have been isolated and quarantined, and will be evaluated at the beginning and end of their quarantine period so that we can detect asymptomatic cases. We will also carry out serological tests on close contacts to determine if the cases could have been infected by them, ”said MINSA.
The ministry noted that the number of new cases in the community has remained stable at an average of one case per day in the last two weeks.
He added that the number of unrelated cases in the community has also remained stable at an average of less than one case per day in the past two weeks.
The ministry also announced the closure of two groups at S11 Dormitory @ Punggol at 2 Seletar North Link and the construction site at 9 Penang Road / 8 Loyang Crescent, as there are no cases linked to them during the last two or 28 incubation periods. days.
99% of all cases have recovered, 1 in ICU
With 12 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Wednesday, 57,624 cases, or 99.6 percent of the total, have fully recovered from the infection.
Most of the 39 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while one is in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
A total of 150 patients with mild symptoms or who are clinically well but still test positive are isolated and cared for in community facilities.
In addition to 27 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.
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