Twenty of them are local cases in the community. Of them, 17 – out of 19 linked cases – are linked to the 115 Bukit Merah View market and food centre cluster. Seven remaining cases are imported, including one Singaporean and two permanent residents who returned from India.
Separately, a 12-year-old female PR, a student at Tanglin Trust School, was identified as linked to a previously reported case but not to any active clusters. Most of the 17 new cases – aged between three to 87 – are family members and household contacts of infections in the cluster.
The new addition to the cluster is a 52-year-old Singaporean man who works as a private hire driver for Tada. As the fully-vaccinated man had been identified as a close contact of a previously reported case in the cluster, he was placed on quarantine on 15 June.With 29 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Thursday, 61,960 cases – or 99.3 per cent of the total – have fully recovered from the infection.
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