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Three new infections confirmed, all imported and asymptomatic

Rei Kurohi
Nov 16, 2020 06:00 am
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There were three new coronavirus cases confirmed yesterday.

They included two permanent residents who both returned from India - a 61-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman.

The other is a short-term visit pass holder, a 30-year-old American woman who arrived from Italy. She is an engineer on a work project in Singapore.

All three were imported cases who were placed on stay-home notice on arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). They were asymptomatic and tested positive while serving their stay-home notice.

The new cases take Singapore's total to 58,119.

This was the fifth day in a row where there were no new community cases and none from workers' dormitories. The number of new cases in the community has remained low, with one case in the past week that is unlinked, the ministry said.

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MOH added that epidemiological investigations are in progress.

In the meantime, all the identified close contacts of the cases have been isolated and placed on quarantine. They will be tested at the start and end of their quarantine period so that asymptomatic cases can be detected.

The ministry will also conduct serological tests for the close contacts to determine if the cases could have been infected by them.

With 10 new cases discharged, 58,014 patients have fully recovered from the disease. A total of 41 patients remain in hospital, with none in the intensive care unit, while 21 are recuperating in community facilities.


By the numbers

3

New cases

0

New cases in community

3

Imported cases

58,119

Total cases

28

Deaths

10

Discharged yesterday

41

In hospital

58,014

Total recovered

 

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