84-year-old visitor to Bukit Merah View block dies of Covid-19 complications, brings death toll to 36
A Covid-19 testing exercise being held at Block 125A Bukit Merah View on June 14, 2021.
SINGAPORE — A 84-year-old Singaporean woman died on Saturday (June 26) from complications due to Covid-19.
In a media statement on Saturday, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said that the woman was tested for Covid-19 on June 15 as part of its community surveillance testing for visitors to 115 and 116 Bukit Merah View — the largest active cluster with 89 cases.
Her results came back positive the same day.
The woman was not vaccinated and had a history of cancer, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia (high level of lipids or fatty substances in blood).
The National Centre for Infectious Diseases has reached out to her family and is extending assistance to them, MOH said.
There are now 36 people here who have died after contracting the coronavirus.
On Saturday, Singapore reported 17 new cases of Covid-19.
The total number of cases here now stands at 62,530.
