JUST IN: 41 COVID19 cases removed from Singapore’s total count after further investigations showed they were negative; new clusters reported at 3 dormitories: MOH
SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 49 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday , including three in the community and three imported infections, said the Ministry of Health .
The remaining case, a 29-year-old Singaporean woman, was detected under the enhanced community testing to test all individuals aged 13 and above who are diagnosed with acute respiratory infection at first presentation to a doctor."In the meantime, all the identified close contacts of the cases have been isolated and placed on quarantine, and will be tested at the start and end of their quarantine period so that we can detect asymptomatic cases.
"We will continue to closely monitor these numbers, as well as the cases detected through our surveillance programme," the ministry said.Of those, 14 had been identified earlier as contacts of previous cases, and had already been quarantined to prevent further transmission, MOH said.The remaining 29 cases were detected through surveillance testing, such as the bi-weekly rostered routine testing of workers living in dormitories and testing of those with ARI symptoms.
It also identified new clusters in three previously cleared dormitories: Changi Lodge II at 80 Tanah Merah Coast Road, North Coast Lodge at 51 North Coast Avenue and Toh Guan Dormitory at 19A Toh Guan Road East.In all, another 142 more COVID-19 patients have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities, taking the number of recovered cases to 55,891."Of these, most are stable or improving, and none is in the intensive care unit," MOH said.
But Mr Lee said Singapore’s COVID-19 response “was not without shortcomings”, adding that the pandemic has severely tested every government in the world and that no country has been perfect.The Prime Minister wished the Government knew about asymptomatic cases earlier, and would have quarantined all Singaporeans who were returning from overseas, rather than only those from selected countries.
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