2 new clusters, including 90 Redhill Close, as Bukit Merah View market grows to 81 cases

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UPDATE: 2 new clusters, including 90 Redhill Close, as Bukit Merah View market grows to 81 cases

Fifteen are local cases in the community. Of them, three – out of ten linked cases – had been quarantined earlier. The three remaining cases are imported, of whom one is a Singaporean and another is a permanent resident who returned from India. The third imported case – a special pass holder who is a sea crew member – arrived from Brazil on a vessel and had remained on board until he was conveyed to a hospital.

an 82-year-old Singaporean woman who is a retiree and was detected when she sought medical treatment at Gleneagles Hospital for an unrelated conditionSeparately, there are two cases who are linked to other infections, but are not considered part of any active COVID-19 cluster in Singapore.

The third case added to the cluster is her household contact – a 52-year-old male PR who works as a consultant at Syndicate Road and is fully vaccinated. The man is a family member and household contact of the second case in the cluster, a 12-year-old female PR who is a student at Tanglin Trust School.The cluster was first linked to a 74-year-old Singaporean man who works at a sundry store at the market. The fully-vaccinated man was confirmed to have COVID-19 on 9 June.

The fourth addition to the cluster is a 62-year-old Singaporean woman who works as a part-time cook at Marine Parade Central Market and Food Centre. As the fully vaccinated woman had been identified as a close contact of the 86-year-old woman, she was placed on quarantine on 19 June.With 28 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Tuesday, 62,098 cases – or 99.4 per cent of the total – have fully recovered from the infection.

 

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