383 new coronavirus cases in Singapore, including 14 in community
Add BT as a preferred source[SINGAPORE] There are 383 new coronavirus cases preliminarily confirmed as of Sunday noon, taking Singapore's total to 37,910.
These include 14 community cases, 10 of whom are Singaporeans or permanent residents while four are work pass and student pass holders.
Nine of the cases were proactively screened as part of Ministry of Health's (MOH) active case finding either at schools or because they had prolonged acute respiratory infection symptoms.
Epidemiological investigations are ongoing for the rest.
Migrant workers living in dormitories comprise the rest. More details will be announced later on Sunday by the MOH.
On Saturday, there were 344 new Covid-19 cases, among whom were seven community cases.
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Four of these were work permit holders picked up by the ministry's proactive screening, either of workers in essential services or migrant workers in public healthcare institutions.
Two were Singaporeans: a cleaner at the pre-school section of Sir Manasseh Meyer International School and a physiotherapist at Tampines Polyclinic.
The remaining case was a permanent resident who was already under quarantine. He is the only linked case among the seven community cases.
Singapore also reported its 25th death due to Covid-19 on Saturday. A 41-year-old male Chinese national who had recovered from the coronavirus died from complications two weeks after he was discharged.
The coroner said he suffered a massive pulmonary thromboembolism. He is now the youngest patient in Singapore to have died from the disease.
The daily average of new community cases has increased in the past two weeks, from five two weeks ago to seven in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community during the same period has remained stable at an average of two per day.
As of Saturday, 24,550 patients have recovered from the disease. Of the total cases, 12,943, or 34 per cent, are still considered active cases and are in hospitals and community isolation facilities.
Including the latest death, 25 have died from Covid-19, while nine have died of other causes while testing positive.
THE STRAITS TIMES
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