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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed three new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore as of Thursday (October 15), bringing the country’s total cases to 57,892.
All three new cases are asymptomatic and have been proactively detected, the ministry said.
Of these, one resides in a dormitory of foreign workers and was detected through routine tests of workers who reside there every two weeks.
The remaining two cases are imported, including a Singaporean who returned from the United States. The other imported case is a work permit holder currently working here who came from Indonesia.
Both imported cases were listed on the stay-at-home notice upon arrival here and tested while the notice was being delivered.
The Health Ministry said the number of new cases in the community has decreased from an average of one case per day in the previous week to an average of less than one per day in the last week.
He added that the number of unrelated cases in the community has also decreased from an average of less than one case per day in the previous week to none in the last week.
In general, all new cases have established links.
Separately, the Health Ministry added the Mohammadi restaurant to a list of public places visited by community cases while they were infectious. The restaurant, located at 7 Lembu Road, was visited from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on October 10.
The ministry also announced the closure of the cluster at SCM Tuas Lodge, located at 80 Tuas South Boulevard, as there have been no cases linked to it during the last two incubation periods or 28 days.
99% of all cases have recovered; none in ICU
With 12 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Thursday, 57,764 cases, or 99.8 percent of the total, have fully recovered from the infection.
Most of the 36 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while none are in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
A total of 64 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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