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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore as of Friday (October 9), bringing the country’s total to 57,859.
The 10 new cases are asymptomatic and were proactively detected, the Health Ministry said.
Of them there is a case that resides in a dormitory of foreign workers, which had previously been identified as a contact of previous cases, and had already been quarantined and tested.
The Health Ministry also said that no new cases have been detected in specially constructed dormitories for the first time since March 28. Of Singapore’s COVID-19 count, about 94.2 percent, or 54,479, are cases living in foreign workers’ dormitories.
The remaining nine cases are imported, including a permanent resident who returned from the Philippines. Six of them are currently employed in Singapore. They had all been placed on the 14-day stay-at-home notice upon arrival here and were tested while meeting the notice at specialized facilities.
The remaining two are members of the crew of a ship that arrived in Singapore from Malaysia on 23 September. They had remained on the ship until they were transferred to a quarantine facility and swabbed there.
In general, all new cases have established links.
The ministry noted that the number of new cases in the community has remained stable at an average of one case per day in the last two weeks.
He added that the number of unrelated cases in the community has also remained stable at an average of less than one case per day in the past two weeks.
The Health Ministry also announced the closure of the group at Cochrane Lodge I at 51 Admiralty Road West, as there have been no cases linked to it during the past two incubation periods, or 28 days.
99% of all cases have recovered, 1 in ICU
With seven more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Friday, 57,675 cases, or 99.7 percent of the total, have fully recovered from the infection.
Most of the 37 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while one is in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
A total of 120 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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