Of these, six are linked to a 15 February private dinner function held at SAFRA Jurong at 333 Boon Lay Way – the biggest COVID-19 cluster here to date.
The addition brings the total of those who have fully recovered and have been discharged to 93, over half of the confirmed cases here. Ten are in critical condition in the intensive care unit, up from nine on Sunday. He had been identified to have attended the Chinese New Year gathering at Mei Hwan Drive on 25 January, and reported developing symptoms on 4 February.
Subsequent serological test results on Sunday afternoon confirmed that he had an earlier COVID-19 infection.COVID-19’s death toll surpasses SARS epidemicThe novel strain belongs to the same family of coronaviruses as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , which killed nearly 800 people globally during a 2002-2003 outbreak and also started in China.
To date, the virus has left more than 3,100 people in China dead and sickened over 110,000 globally. Over 760 deaths related to the outbreak have been reported outside mainland China.
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