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25 May 2021 04:01PM (Updated:
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SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 21 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases as of noon on Tuesday (May 25), comprising 18 in the community and three in a foreign worker dormitory.
This is the highest number of dormitory cases since Oct 8 last year, when there were four cases.
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Fifteen of the locally transmitted infections were linked to previous cases. Eight of them had been placed on quarantine earlier and seven were detected through surveillance. The remaining six had no links to previous cases, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
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Two more people have tested positive following the mandatory Covid-19 swabbing exercise of residents and visitors at Block 506 Hougang Avenue 8 on Friday and Saturday, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said yesterday.
This brings the tally to 11 confirmed cases at the block, after 405 people were tested during this round of testing.
MOH and the Ministry of National Development (MND) said yesterday that 10 cases were from four different households in the same block in Hougang.
The two ministries also announced in the same press release that compulsory testing will be conducted for the 243 residents of Block 559 Pasir Ris Street 51.
This is after four cases were detected from two households in the block - three family members and a 88-year-old cleaner working at Changi Airport Terminal 3.
SINGAPORE - Testing operations for Block 559 Pasir Ris Street 51 have been completed, with 285 residents and visitors to the building having been swabbed as at noon on Monday (May 24), said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
An MOH spokesman said in an update on Monday evening that 188 people in the affected block have tested negative for Covid-19, while test results for the remaining 97 are pending. So far, no one has tested positive for Covid-19, she added.
MOH and the Ministry of National Development said on Sunday that the authorities would conduct mandatory polymerase chain reaction testing at the block after four Covid-19 cases were detected in two different households there.