Covid-19: Nine people from community infected in Singapore, another 602 linked to workers’ dormitories | Malay Mail

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SINGAPORE, May 30 — Two new Covid-19 cases identified yesterday were linked to foreign workers who had been tested before they were due to start work on plumbing and electrical works in schools, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said. They are among nine cases of Covid-19 identified in the community....

Covid-19: Nine people from community infected in Singapore, another 602 linked to workers’ dormitoriesMigrant workers chat outside their rooms at a dormitory declared as an isolation area, amid the Covid-19 outbreak in Singapore, on May 4, 2020. — Picture courtesy of TODAY

― For the six work pass and work permit holders, five were picked up because of proactive screening and surveillance. Overall, the ministry said that the number of new cases in the community has dropped, from an average of six cases a day in the week before, to an average of five a day in the past week.

The rest of the 602 cases identified yesterday are linked to migrant workers residing in dormitories. So far, more than 39,000 preschool staff members have been tested and only one case is likely to be a current infection.One patient — identified as Case 33864 — is a 25-year-old Singaporean woman who works as a psychiatrist at Changi General Hospital and is now warded there.

 

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