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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed seven new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore as of Wednesday (October 28), bringing the total case count to 57,987.
All of them are imported and asymptomatic and “were detected from our proactive screening and surveillance,” the ministry said.
Among them is a 70-year-old male permanent resident who returned from Belgium, while the remaining six are currently employed in Singapore, the Health Ministry added.
One is a work pass holder who came from Switzerland, and five are work permit holders who came from Myanmar and the Philippines.
All of them were included in the stay-at-home notice upon arrival here and were evaluated while complying with the notice.
The Health Ministry noted that the number of new, as well as unrelated, cases in the community has risen from two cases the week before to three last week.
Separately, the ministry also added the Nanyang Community Club’s Anytime Fitness gym, visited on six separate occasions, and a Kopitiam facility at Changi Airport to a list of places visited by community cases while they were infectious.
99% of all cases have recovered; none in ICU
With seven more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Wednesday, 57,890 cases, or 99.8 percent of the total, have fully recovered from the infection.
Most of the 40 hospitalized cases are stable or improving, while none are critically ill in the intensive care unit.
A total of 29 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 four others whose deaths were attributed to disease. coronary. heart disease.
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