UPDATE: New cluster at JEM; residents of 3 HDB blocks to be tested for COVID
. His is the fourth such death here in less than a week.
Only one of them is named after a case number, while the remaining four are linked to JEM, Elsie’s Kitchen, Nimble/Knead, and Chee Song Frozen Foods. Altogether, they are linked to 17 cases, with four linked to the cluster at JEM. In a separate press release on Friday, the MOH said it is investigating likely COVID-19 transmission at blocks 237 Bukit Batok East Avenue 5, 51 Chin Swee Road, and 683 Tessensohn Road where at least 19 cases were detected in total.
Six among the 45 cases are fully vaccinated – five require oxygen supplementation while one requires ICU care as they have underlying medical conditions, said the MOH.
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