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SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on Sunday (September 6) another three new clusters of coronavirus infections, all in bedrooms.
Cassia @ Penjuru, CDPL Tuas Dormitory, and Kranji Lodge I were linked to 13, seven, and five previously confirmed cases, respectively.
Despite the fact that all the foreign worker dormitories were announced as cleared on August 11, new groups continue to emerge.
In the last week alone, 12 groups have resurfaced in dormitories that were previously eliminated from the virus; the others are Cochrane Lodge I, Mandai Lodge I, Tuas South Dormitory, Blue Stars Dormitory, Cochrane Lodge II, Westlite Toh Guan dormitory, Changi Lodge II, North Coast Lodge, and Toh Guan Dormitory.
Four community cases were reported on Sunday, including one holder of a work pass and three holders of a work permit.
The Health Ministry said all four are asymptomatic and detected through proactive testing, including one patient who was previously quarantined. Two of the four were linked to previous cases, while the other two are currently unrelated.
There were 13 imported cases, including four Singaporeans, two permanent residents (PRs), one work pass holder, five work permit holders and one student pass holder.
The Singaporeans and PRs had returned from India between August 24 and 26, and from the Philippines on August 25.
The pass and work permit holders are people working in Singapore who arrived from India on August 25, Indonesia on August 24 and 25, and the Philippines on August 23 and 25. The student pass holder arrived from India on August 25.
Migrant workers staying in dormitories made up the remaining 23 of 40 new coronavirus cases announced Sunday, bringing Singapore’s total to 57,022.
Among the 23 cases residing in dormitories, five had previously been identified as previous case contacts and had been quarantined to prevent further transmission. They were tested during their quarantine.
The remaining 18 cases were detected through surveillance tests, such as the routine bi-weekly tests of dormitory workers.
The Hoshino Coffee establishment at Raffles Holland V Mall and the White Restaurant establishment at Jewel Changi Airport, as well as Kabayan Remittance and Metrobox Services at Lucky Plaza, were the latest to be added to the list of places visited by patients infected with Covid-19.
The Ministry of Health provides the list of places that patients infected with Covid-19 visited for at least 30 minutes and the times they visited so that the people who were in those places closely monitor their health for two weeks since they were there .
The full list of locations and times can be found on the website of the Ministry of Health.
The ministry has said that close contacts would have already been reported and that there is no need to avoid these places as they would have been cleaned up if necessary.
The average number of new daily cases in the community in a week has decreased from three cases two weeks ago to two in the last week.
The number of unrelated cases in the community in a week has increased from an average of one case a day to two a day during the same period.
With 66 cases discharged on Sunday, 56,318 patients have made a full recovery from the disease.
Fifty-one patients remained in the hospital as of Sunday, none in intensive care, while 611 were recovering in community facilities.
Singapore has had 27 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.
Globally, the virus outbreak, which began in December last year, has infected more than 27 million people. More than 880,000 people have died.
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