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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed 14 new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore as of noon on Saturday (October 24), bringing the country’s total cases to 57,965.
Of the new cases, two are in the community, one resides in a bedroom and 11 are imported. Twelve were asymptomatic, while the other two were symptomatic.
The two community cases are working in Terminal 3 of Changi Airport. One is a security officer in T3 who had left for work prior to admission to the hospital. He also visited the Singapore National Eye Center for treatment of an unrelated medical condition. The other case is a temperature tester and swab assistant at Raffles Medical in T3 who had also gone to work prior to admission to the hospital.
Both cases were detected by enhanced community testing to evaluate all persons 13 years of age and older who were diagnosed with an acute respiratory infection on first presentation to a physician.
Although both cases work in T3, they had not interacted with each other and epidemiological investigations have so far not established any link between them. As a precautionary measure, all people working in T3 who may have contact with travelers will be screened for COVID-19.
As the volume of travel is expected to increase in the coming months, the Health Ministry has been in talks with the relevant agencies to increase the routine tests listed for front-line personnel working at Changi Airport.
FairPrice Finest at T3 was added to the list of public places visited by COVID-19 cases in the community while they were infectious. The period visited was October 17, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Overall, the number of new cases in the community has decreased from four cases in the previous week to three in the last week. The number of unrelated cases in the community has increased from one case in the previous week to three in the last week.
The only case of dormitories was detected through routine biweekly numbered tests of workers living in dormitories.
Among the 11 imported cases, three are Singaporean and one is a permanent Singaporean resident who returned from India and the Philippines.
Three others are work permit holders currently working in Singapore and came from Indonesia and the Philippines. Three more cases are the holder of a student pass that arrived from France and two holders of a long-term visit pass that arrived from India and Indonesia. The remaining case is a short-term visitor pass holder that arrived from India. He was allowed entry to Singapore because his father is a permanent resident of Singapore.
99% of all cases have recovered; none in ICU
With 12 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Saturday, 57,844 cases, or 99.8 percent of the total, have fully recovered from the infection.
Most of the 53 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while none are in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
A total of 40 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 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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