Overall, the number of new cases in the community has risen from 37 in the week before to 43 in the past week. - Reuters
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): There were 28 new coronavirus cases, including 10 in the community, reported on Sunday (May 9).
Of the 10 cases, five are linked to previous cases and had already been placed under quarantine. This takes Singapore s total number of cases to 61,359.
The other 18 cases were imported. They had been placed on stay-home notice (SHN) or isolated on arrival from Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). Among them were 11 Singaporeans or permanent residents.
There were no cases from the workers dormitories.
May 08, 2021
The number of new cases in the community have increased to 45 cases in the past week.
ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
A 72-year-old Singaporean retiree who had been sent to Raffles Hospital for a heart condition on Wednesday (May 5) was among four new community cases on Friday (May 7).
The man tested positive for Covid-19 the next day even though he was asymptomatic, and his serology test also came back positive indicating he could be shedding minute fragments of the virus RNA from a past infection which are no longer transmissible and infective to others, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
A 72-year-old Singaporean retiree who had been sent to Raffles Hospital on Wednesday because of a heart condition was among four new community cases yesterday.
The man, who was asymptomatic, tested positive for Covid-19 the next day, and his serology test also came back positive - indicating that he could be shedding minute fragments of the virus RNA from a past infection that are no longer transmissible and infective to others, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). But given that we are not able to definitively conclude when he had been infected, we will take all the necessary public health actions as a precautionary measure, it said.
MOH confirmed seven new cases of locally transmitted Covid-19 infection on May 8, 2021. - ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): There were 20 new coronavirus cases, including seven in the community, reported on Saturday at noon (May 8).
Of the seven cases, two are linked to previous cases and had already been placed under quarantine. This takes Singapore s total number of cases to 61,331.
The other 13 cases were imported. They had been placed on stay-home notice (SHN) or isolated on arrival from Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). Among them were nine Singaporeans or permanent residents.
There were no cases from the workers dormitories.
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