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.
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.
Of the community cases, two are currently unlinked.
There were also 12 imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notice on arrival in Singapore, said the ministry.
Of these, seven are returning Singaporeans or permanent residents.
The new cases take Singapore s total to 61,536. More details will be announced on Saturday night.
On Friday, MOH said that five primary school pupils have tested positive for the coronavirus after attending classes run by an infected tuition teacher at Learning Point, an enrichment centre located in Parkway Centre.
They are two boys aged seven and nine who go to St Stephen s School, a nine-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy from Kong Hwa School, and a boy aged nine who goes to St Andrew s Junior School.
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24 new community cases in Singapore, including 13 linked to Changi Airport cluster
Changi Airport staff members wearing personal protective equipment assist travellers at the check-in counters. (File photo: Calvin Oh)
14 May 2021 04:26PM (Updated:
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SINGAPORE: Twenty-four community cases were among 52 new COVID-19 infections reported in Singapore as of noon on Friday (May 14), said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
This is the highest number of new daily COVID-19 cases since Jan 30, when 58 cases were reported.
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Twenty of the new community cases are linked to previous cases, of which 13 have been linked to the Changi Airport cluster. Among them, 16 cases have already been placed on quarantine earlier.