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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed 12 new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore at noon on Wednesday (October 21), bringing the country’s total cases to 57,933.
The 12 new cases are imported and asymptomatic, MINSA said, adding that they were proactively detected.
The ministry also announced the closure of the cluster at Tuas View Dormitory, located at 70 Tuas South Avenue 1, as there are no cases linked to it during the last two incubation periods or 28 days.
Of the 12 imported cases, nine are work permit holders currently working here who came from Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines.
Two others are dependent pass holders who arrived from the United Arab Emirates. The remaining case is a short-term visitor pass holder who arrived from Egypt for his upcoming marriage to his Singaporean fiancee.
All of them had been listed on the stay-at-home notice upon arrival here and were examined while complying with the notice.
MINSA noted that the number of new cases in the community has decreased from four cases in the previous week to two in the last week.
He added that the number of unrelated cases in the community has risen from none in the previous week to two cases in the last week.
99% of all cases have recovered; none in ICU
With two more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Wednesday, 57,821 cases, or 99.8 percent of the total, have fully recovered from the infection.
Most of the 43 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while none are in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
A total of 41 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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