As of 8 August 2020, 12pm, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed 132 new cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore.
Among the cases:
Amongst the 6 imported cases, 3 (Cases 54960, 54971 and 54972) are Work Pass/ Work Permit holders who are currently employed in Singapore. They arrived in Singapore from India and Indonesia on 27 July. The remaining 3 cases (Cases 54952, 54961 and 54970) are Dependant’s Pass holders who arrived from India on 27 July and the US on 26 July.
All of them had been placed on 14-day Stay-Home Notice (SHN) upon arrival in Singapore, and were serving their SHN at dedicated facilities. They had been tested while serving their SHN.
There is 1 case in the community today (Case 54969) who had been identified as a contact of a previously confirmed case, and had been placed on quarantine earlier. She was tested during quarantine to determine her status.
Overall, the number of new cases in the community has decreased, from an average of 3 cases per day in the week before, to an average of 2 per day in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has remained stable at an average of 1 case per day in the past 14 days.
The Inter-agency Taskforce has completed the testing of all workers in the dormitories on 7 August, except for a few standalone blocks in the dormitories that serve as quarantine facilities. The workers in these quarantine facilities will be tested when their isolation ends. Case counts are expected to remain high in the coming days, before tapering down thereafter.
All the new cases are linked to known clusters.
271 more cases of COVID-19 infection have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities. In all, 48,583 have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged from hospitals or community care facilities.
Most of the 145 confirmed cases who are still in hospital are stable or improving. 0 is in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
6,174 cases who have mild symptoms, or are clinically well but still test positive for COVID-19 are isolated and cared for at community facilities.
27 have passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection.
Related link: List of public places visited by confirmed cases in the community during Infectious Period
For more details, refer to MOH’s press release.