As of 14 August 2020, 12pm, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed 83 new cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore.
Among the cases:
Amongst the 4 imported cases, 2 are Dependant’s Pass holders who arrived from India on 30 July and 31 July. The remaining cases arrived from India on 2 August. They are Work Pass holders who are currently employed in Singapore. 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.
There are no cases in the community today.
Overall, the number of new cases in the community has remained stable at an average of 2 cases per day in the past 2 weeks. The number of unlinked cases in the community has also remained stable at an average of 1 case per day in the past 2 weeks.
The Inter-agency Taskforce has completed the testing of all workers in the dormitories. There are currently about 21,700 workers who are still serving out their quarantine period. These workers will be tested when their quarantine ends, and we expect the case counts to remain high in the coming days, before tapering down thereafter.
All the new cases are linked to known clusters.
313 more cases of COVID-19 infection have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities. In all, 51,049 have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged from hospitals or community care facilities.
Most of the 79 confirmed cases who are still in hospital are stable or improving. None are in the intensive care unit.
4,425 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.