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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed 20 new cases in Singapore as of Saturday (September 26) afternoon, bringing the country’s total to 57,685.
Of these, 14 cases reside in bedrooms. Seven had been previously identified as contacts from previous cases and had already been quarantined to prevent further transmission. The remaining seven cases were detected by surveillance tests.
There are five imported cases, which were placed on the Stay at Home Notice upon arrival in Singapore. Four are work pass or work permit holders currently working in Singapore and arrived from India and Indonesia on September 14, and from Brazil and the Philippines on September 13.
The remaining case is a dependent’s pass holder who arrived from India on September 15.
The lonely case in the community is a migrant worker. He was asymptomatic and was detected through proactive testing of workers in the construction, marine and process sectors living outside the bedrooms.
“In general, the number of new cases in the community has remained stable at an average of less than one case per day in the last two weeks. The number of unrelated cases in the community has also remained stable at an average of less than one case per day in the last two weeks, ”said the Ministry of Health.
99% of all cases have recovered.
With 19 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Saturday, 57,359 cases, or 99.4 percent of the total, have fully recovered from the infection.
Most of the 25 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while none are critically ill in the intensive care unit.
A total of 274 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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