S’pore confirms 611 new Covid-19 cases

SINGAPORE: Singapore has preliminarily confirmed 611 Covid-19 new cases yesterday, with only three cases involving Singaporeans or permanent residents, bringing the total infection number to 33,860.

Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a statement that the noon data showed that the vast majority of new cases involved migrant workers residing in dormitories.

The ministry said it is still working through the details of the cases.

In the full data released late Thursday, Singapore classified 1,674 as community cases, 580 as imported cases and 30,995 as foreign workers residing in dorms.

Singapore which yesterday announced it has revised the discharge criteria for Covid-19 patients, saw 1,018 more cases of Covid-19 infection have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities.

In all, 18,294 patients, or about 55 per cent from Thursday’s tally of 33,249, have fully recovered.

The revision will see those assessed to be clinically well by Day 21 of the onset of illness discharged without the need for further polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.