Of these, six are airport staff employed at Terminals 1 and 3.
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They are a 27-year-old who works in a retail store at Terminal 3, a 29-year-old who works as an IT support engineer in Terminal 1, two Certis Cisco employees aged 28 and 67, and two Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers aged 51 and 57.
The other seven are contacts of patients in the cluster.
They comprise two cleaners at Kopitiam Square Sengkang, another cleaner at Robinson 77 in the Central Business District, the principal of a language school, a retail staff at Ngee Ann City, an administrative worker in the Ministry of Manpower and a 91-year-old housewife.
Both of them, aged 8 and 12, are pupils of St Andrew s Junior School and took the same school bus as a pupil who attended enrichment classes at Learning Point and was later confirmed to have Covid-19.
This brings the total number of patients in the Learning Point cluster to nine, after a 50-year-old woman who works as a tutor there was confirmed to have Covid-19 on Wednesday.
The remaining two children are a 6-year-old boy who is a pupil at Palm View Primary School and a 7-year-old boy who is a pupil at Yio Chu Kang Primary School.
Both cases are linked to the operating theatre nurse who worked at Sengkang General Hospital.
A total of three students who attended EduFirst Learning Centre in Hougang have been confirmed as Covid-19 cases, after two new cases were reported as linked to a previous case, in the Ministry of Health (MOH) s May 15 update.
Case 63256 is a 6 year-old male Singaporean who is a student at Palm View Primary School, while Case 63257 is a 7 year-old male Singaporean who is a student at Yio Chu Kang Primary School.
Both boys were asymptomatic, and had been quarantined prior to testing positive, as they had attended classes at EduFirst Learning Centre in Hougang together with Case 63122, who was confirmed to have Covid-19 on May 12.
This brings the total number of cases to
61,536.
19 of the cases announced on May 15 are in the community. There are no new cases in the dormitories.
The remaining 12 cases are imported.
Overall, the number of new cases in the community has increased from
43 cases in the week before to
103 cases in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has also increased from
six cases in the week before to
16 cases in the past week.
19 cases in the community
There are 19 cases in the community, of whom 17 are linked to previous cases and two are currently unlinked.