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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed 63 new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore as of Thursday (September 10), bringing the country’s total to 57,229.
Announced two additional clusters linked to dormitories: Avery Lodge Dormitory at 2D Jalan Papan and PPT Lodge 1A at 8 Seletar North Link.
The ministry also added Yaleju-Tong Bei Huo Guo Chinese stew restaurant, located at 149 Geylang Road, to a list of public places visited by community cases while they were infectious.
Of the 63 new cases, 56, or about 89 percent, are asymptomatic and proactively detected, the Health Ministry said.
Two, including a Singaporean, are classified as community cases, while six, including a Singaporean, are imported. The remaining 55 cases are foreign workers living in dormitories, of which 26 are part of 35 cases linked to the new group at Avery Lodge.
Overall, three percent of new cases have no established links.
Of the two community cases in the community, Singapore’s case 57312 is linked to previous imported cases, 57145, 57186 and 57272, which are members of his family. They had returned from India on August 24 and were advised to stay home in a dedicated facility upon their arrival here.
“While Case 57312 had not traveled abroad with them, he had requested to care for his spouse and young children at the stay-at-home notification facility and was isolated with them since August 24,” the Health Ministry said. .
The other case is currently unrelated and was detected through the routine tests listed on workers in the construction, marine and process sectors living outside of bedrooms.
Among the six imported cases, one is a Singaporean who returned to Singapore from the United Arab Emirates on August 29. Four others are pass or work permit holders currently employed in Singapore who arrived from Bangladesh on Aug. 31, and Indonesia and Russia on Aug. 29.
The remaining case is the holder of a student pass that arrived from the Philippines on August 27.
All of them had received a 14-day stay-at-home notice upon arrival here, and had been evaluated while serving their notice at dedicated facilities, the Health Ministry said.
The ministry also noted that the number of new cases in the community has decreased, from an average of three cases per day in the previous week, to an average of two per day in the last week.
Similarly, the number of unrelated cases in the community has also decreased, from an average of two cases per day in the previous week, to an average of one per day in the last week.
29 bedroom cases detected through surveillance tests
Among the 55 cases residing in dormitories, 26 had previously been identified as contacts from previous cases and quarantined, and tested during the quarantine, the Health Ministry said.
The remaining 29 cases were detected by surveillance tests, he added.
Of the 26 from Avery Lodge, most had been quarantined before and were examined during quarantine to determine their status, the Health Ministry said.
In addition to the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, or swab test, serological tests were also performed to determine if some of the cases are current or past infections.
“The results of serological tests for seven cases have so far tested positive, indicating probable past infections,” the ministry said.
These dormitory-living workers account for 94.4 percent, or 54,030 cases, of Singapore’s total COVID-19 count.
About 99% of all cases have recovered
With 66 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Thursday, 56,558 cases, or 98.8% of the total, have fully recovered from the infection.
Most of the 47 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while none are in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
A total of 597 patients with mild symptoms or who are clinically well but still test positive are isolated and cared for in community facilities.
In addition to the 27 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 disease. coronary. heart disease.
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