3 new Covid-19 cases: 2 imported, 1 in foreign worker dormitory
SINGAPORE — Singapore has confirmed three new cases of Covid-19, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a press release on Thursday (Oct 15).
One resides in a foreign worker dormitory and two are imported cases. There are no infections in the wider community.
All three fresh cases have no symptoms and were detected through proactive screening and surveillance, MOH said.
The case from the dormitory was detected through the ministry’s fortnightly Rostered Routine Testing of workers living in dormitories, which allows the authorities to pick up cases early, including asymptomatic ones.
The two imported cases are a 68-year-old Singaporean woman who was returning from the United States, and a 41-year-old female work permit holder from Indonesia.
Both women were placed on stay-home notice upon their arrival in Singapore, during which they were tested for Covid-19.
Investigations are in progress and all the identified close contacts of the new cases have been isolated and placed on quarantine. They will be tested at the start and end of their quarantine period to detect asymptomatic cases.
The ministry will also conduct serological tests (to detect past infections) for the close contacts, to determine if the new cases could have been infected by them.
Overall, the number of new cases in the community has gone down from an average of one case a day in the week before, to an average of fewer than one a day in the past week.
The number of cases in the community with no known sources of infection has also dropped from an average of fewer than one case a day in the week before, to none in the past week.
From its monitoring of infections at dormitories, MOH said that SCM Tuas Lodge, located at 80 Tuas South Boulevard, has been taken off the list of Covid-19 clusters.
There have been no more cases linked to it for the past two incubation periods that amount to 28 days.
UPDATE ON REMAINING CASES
The total number of Covid-19 cases in Singapore now stands at 57,892.
Of these, 57,764 have fully recovered and have been discharged from hospitals or community care facilities, including 12 on Thursday.
There are still 36 patients who are hospitalised. Most are stable or improving, and no one is under intensive care.
Another 64 patients are isolated and cared for at community facilities. These are those who have mild symptoms, or are clinically well but still test positive for Covid-19.
So far, 28 people here have died from complications due to Covid-19.
