CORONAVIRUS | Singapore has preliminarily confirmed an additional 451 positive cases of Covid-19, taking the total count for the republic to 28,794.
The noon data today showed that only one case involved a Singaporean or permanent resident while the rest involved foreign workers residing in dormitories.
In a statement, the republic's Ministry of Health (MOH) noted that it is still working through the details of the cases, and further updates would be shared later.
Singapore has classified 1,310 as community cases, 580 as imported cases, 363 cases involving foreign workers staying outside dorms and 26,090 cases of foreign workers residing in dorms.
In its full data released late yesterday, the ministry said 9,835 have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged from hospitals or community care facilities.
There are currently 1,036 confirmed cases still hospitalised, with 12 in the intensive care unit.
The MOH said 17,450 people who have mild symptoms, or clinically well but still tested positive for Covid-19, have been isolated and cared for at community facilities.
Thus far, 22 people have died due to Covid-19 here.
A cluster linked to ABC Hostel at 3, Jalan Kubor was closed yesterday as there had been no more cases linked to it for the past two incubation periods or 28 days.
The MOH identified four new clusters yesterday while the largest cluster in the republic, S11 Dormitory @ Punggol, has a total of 2,583 confirmed cases.
- Bernama
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