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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).
This brings the total number of cases to 61,799.
There are 22 new Covid-19 community cases, of which 15 are linked to previous cases.
The remaining seven are currently unlinked.
There are no new cases in the dormitories.
There are seven imported cases, who had already been placed on Stay-Home Notice (SHN) or isolated upon arrival in Singapore.
Among the 15 linked community cases, four involve children aged 1, 2, 5 and 9.
Here are their details.
Already quarantined
Case 63560 is a two-year-old male Singaporean who is a student at My First Skool at 51 Fernvale Link.
As he had been identified as a close contact of Case 63357, he was placed on quarantine on May 16.
Both Kong Hwa School (left) and Singapore Polytechnic each have four students who tested positive for Covid-19. - ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A total of 37 students from 25 schools have been infected with Covid-19 this month, including six new cases reported on Thursday (May 20).
This includes 15 cases linked to a cluster at the Learning Point tuition centre and another 11 to one at Changi Airport Terminal 3.
The affected schools range from pre-schools to primary and secondary schools, a madrasah, junior college and several institutes of higher learning.
The Learning Point cluster emerged after a 50-year-old Singaporean woman who teaches at its Parkway Centre branch tested positive for the virus on May 12. The cluster now has 28 cases.
SINGAPORE - A safe distancing ambassador working at Westgate mall, a basic care assistant at Alexandra Hospital and two pre-school teachers were among 34 new Covid-19 community cases reported on Wednesday (May 19). Three prison inmates and five schoolchildren also tested positive. Four of the new cases are currently unlinked. These include the safe distancing ambassador, who is a 45-year-old.
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