16 community infections among 35 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore
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[SINGAPORE] There were 35 new coronavirus cases confirmed as at Thursday noon, taking Singapore's total to 61,121.
They included 16 community cases and no new cases from migrant workers' dormitories, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
Among them, eight are linked to the Filipino nurse who works at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and were detected from the Health Ministry's proactive testing of patients and staff in the affected ward.
Another seven are family members of the 38-year-old Immigration & Checkpoints Authority officer deployed at Changi Airport Terminal 1, and had already been placed on quarantine.
There were 19 imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notice upon arrival in Singapore.
On Wednesday, a possible Covid-19 cluster surfaced at TTSH, with a nurse infected and likely infections in a doctor and three patients in a general ward.
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