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SINGAPORE – 34 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed as of Saturday afternoon (September 5), including three community cases and two imported cases.
The three community cases comprise one Singaporean and two work pass holders, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in its daily update.
The two imported cases were placed on notice of admission upon arrival in Singapore.
More details on the cases will be released later Saturday night.
The latest increase brings Singapore’s total number of cases to 56,982.
On Friday, 40 new cases of Covid-19 were reported. Three were imported patients who had arrived from India, while the other 37 were migrant workers living in dormitories.
There were no cases in the community.
Several Orchard Road shopping malls, Wisma Atria, The Centrepoint, Ngee Ann City and Lucky Plaza, were among the new places visited by Covid-19 infected patients as of Friday.
Also recently added to the list of locations that coronavirus patients visited: Compass One in Sengkang, Jewel Changi Airport, Nex, and FairPrice Hub in Joo Koon.
Nex was at the top of the list, but a new visit was registered, this time at a Din Tai Fung restaurant in the mall.
The Ministry of Health provides the list of places that patients infected with Covid-19 visited for at least 30 minutes and the times they visited so that people who were there closely monitor their health for two weeks from the date of your visits.
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.
A new group was also announced at the Blue Stars Dormitory at 3 Kian Teck Lane, with 33 patients linked to the location as of Friday.
The average number of new daily cases in the community in a week has risen from two cases two weeks ago to three in the last week, according to Friday’s update.
The number of unrelated cases in the community in a week has also increased from a daily average of one case to two cases during the same period.
With 146 cases discharged on Friday, 56,156 patients, or 99 percent, of all Covid-19 patients have fully recovered from the disease.
A total of 51 patients remain in the hospital, none in intensive care, while 696 are recovering in community facilities.
Singapore has had 27 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.
Globally, the virus outbreak, which began in December last year, has infected more than 26.5 million people. More than 873,000 people have died.
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