94% of 49 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore asymptomatic; three more dorms clusters

SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Health confirmed 49 new COVID-19 cases as of Wednesday , bringing the country’s total to 56,901, and three more clusters linked to foreign worker dormitories.

Three – including one Singaporean – are classified as cases in the community. Three others are imported cases and have been placed on the stay-home notice or isolated upon their arrival in Singapore. Epidemiological investigations of the cases are in progress while all the identified close contacts of the cases have been isolated and placed on quarantine, and will be tested at the start and end of their quarantine period, said the MOH.

Separately, the number of unlinked cases in the community has remained stable at an average of one case per day in the past two weeks. The third imported case, a 41-year-old Indonesian man, is a seaman who had been tested upon his arrival from his home country on 26 August. “The serological test results for 23 cases have come back positive so far, which indicate likely past infections,” said the MOH.

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