Singapore confirms 12 new cases, all imported



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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed 12 new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore as of noon on Saturday (October 31), bringing the country’s total case count to 58,015.

All new cases are imported and all but one are asymptomatic.

Of them, two are Singaporeans who returned from Indonesia and the United States, and one is a permanent resident of Singapore who returned from Indonesia.

Another case is the pass holder of a dependent who arrived from Greece, who is a contact of a previously announced case. The remaining eight cases are work permit holders currently working in Singapore and came from Indonesia and the Philippines. All had been placed on the Stay at Home Notice (SHN) or isolated upon arrival in Singapore and were screened while serving SHN.

As there have been no further cases related to the group at Kian Teck Dormitory at 26 Kian Teck Avenue for the last two incubation periods, or 28 days, the group has now been closed.

No new places were added Saturday to the list of public places visited by COVID-19 cases while they were infectious in the community.

99% of all cases have recovered; none in ICU

With four more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Saturday, 57,913 cases, or 99.8 percent of the total, have fully recovered from the infection.

Most of the 42 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while none are in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

A total of 32 patients with mild symptoms or who are clinically well but still test positive are isolated and cared for in community facilities.

In addition to 28 patients who died from complications of COVID-19, another 15 who tested positive for the virus were found 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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