SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Health confirmed 10 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore as of Wednesday , taking the country’s total to 57,840.Of them, four are cases residing in foreign worker dormitories, where one had been identified earlier as a contact of previous cases and had already been quarantined and tested. Three were detected through surveillance testing.
Overall, 20 per cent of new cases have no established links and epidemiological investigations are in progress.— Yahoo Singapore October 7, 2020 “In the meantime, 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 so that we can detect asymptomatic cases. We will also conduct serological tests for the close contacts to determine if the cases could have been infected by them,” said the MOH.
It added that the number of unlinked cases in the community has also remained stable at an average of fewer than one case per day in the past two weeks. 99% of total cases have recovered, 1 in ICUWith 12 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Wednesday, 57,624 cases – or 99.6 per cent of the total – have fully recovered from the infection.
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