Singapore: 327 new Covid-19 cases. All foreign workers tested by August

Singapore, July 17 (The Straits Times / ANN): 327 new cases of coronavirus confirmed as of noon (July 17) on Friday, with a total of 47,453 cases in Singapore.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Friday that they included nine community cases of six Singaporeans or permanent residents and three work pass holders.

Epidemiologic investigations are underway in other cases.

Also, there were three import cases that were subject to home notification when they arrived in Singapore.

Dormitory migrant workers make up most of the other cases.

On Thursday, MOH announced that the Resort World Sentosa casino is one of the new places visited by infectious Covid-19 patients.

Three visits were recorded at the casino on July 4, 5, and 6th, but MOH was unable to determine if different patients visited separately or if at least one patient visited the location three times. I haven’t mentioned it.

Ubi’s Traffic Police Headquarters, Master Plata at Sembawang Shopping Center and Giant Express Outlet at Bukit Batok East have also been added to the list of places visited by infected patients.

The MHLW will provide a list of places and times that infectious Covid-19 patients have visited for at least 30 minutes, and have people at these places during a specific period carefully monitor their health for two weeks from the date of visit. It was.

A complete list of locations and times can be found on the MOH website. The ministry said it was not necessary to avoid these locations as the close contact had already been notified and had been cleaned as needed.

In Singapore, 27 people died from the Covid-19 complications, but 14 positive cases died from other causes.

Singapore is in the final stages of testing and clearing all foreign workers staying in coronavirus dormitories, according to Wong’s Minister for National Development. 17).

As of Thursday, approximately 232,000 workers have been recovered or tested free of viruses. About 323,000 workers live in dormitories in Singapore.

As authorities cleared the final group of workers, many of them from dormitories with a high prevalence of coronavirus cases, and some recent increase in some cases of Covid-19 cases from this group. Said Wong. A multi-ministerial task force that handles outbreaks.

This trend is expected to continue for the next few days, he added in a virtual press conference.

About 94% of the confirmed cases of coronavirus in Singapore are dormants.

Since the beginning of this month, the average number of dormitories tested positive for Covid-19 per day was 192. Since Monday, the average number of people per day has increased to 284.

Wong answered questions about the strategy to clean up the dormitory and warned that there might still be positive cases among this group of workers, even after all have been cleaned up.

“After seeing 300,000 people in the dormitory and after we have cleared everything, we are, so to speak, committed to conducting regular and regular testing of all these workers once every two weeks.

“And we wouldn’t be at all surprised to pick up a positive case, and many of them probably are old infections, but it seems this is seen for workers in the community. Very often, and the same situation will later occur to dormitory workers.”

Even after providing a quarantine period, this is not absolutely certain. Therefore, you need to run an exit test.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MOH) said in a statement on Friday that some residents in the dormitories and blocks still remain isolated and some recovered workers are unable to return to work even when they are ready. Stated.

“In consultation with the Ministry of Health, the Inter-Ministry Task Force will provide additional decontamination measures to allow these recovered workers to leave their dormitories to safely resume work without compromising public health. Introduced.

“This will be implemented progressively over the next week,” MOH added. -The Straits Times / Asian News Network