Japan has reported 556 new cases of the coronavirus, surpassing the total of 10,000 about three months after the first case was detected in the country.
Vehicles pass the S11@Punggol foreign worker's dormitory compound, Friday, April 17, 2020 in Singapore. The city state is the latest Southeast Asian nation to surpass 5,000 COVID-19 cases, after more than 600 new cases were reported Friday. The health ministry said most of the new cases are foreign workers living in crowded dormitories.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Saturday that it will take time to break the chain of transmission in the dorms. He wrote on Facebook that the vast majority of cases among migrant workers were mild, as the workers are young. Although cases in the dorms are expected to continue to rise amid ongoing virus testing, Lee said the government is building up its health care and isolation facilities to handle the load.
— CHINA FIGHTS NEW INFECTIONS: China reported 27 new cases, as it tries to stem an upsurge in infections in a northeastern province bordering Russia. Twenty of the new cases were in Heilongjiang province, including 13 Chinese nationals who had returned recently from Russia. The land border with Russia has been closed. China’s official death toll rose sharply to 4,632, reflecting a major upward revision the previous day by authorities in Wuhan, the nation’s hardest-hit city.
— NO MORE FOREIGNERS QUARANTINED IN NORTH KOREA: North Korea said it has released all foreign nationals from coronavirus quarantine. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency also said Saturday that authorities released all citizens who had been quarantined in the provinces of South Phyongan and North Hwanghae, which are near Pyongyang, the capital, and the city of Rason bordering China and Russia. The report didn’t specify how many people remained under the country’s 30-day quarantine.
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