4 new coronavirus clusters in dorms and worksite in Singapore

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The Ministry of Health (MOH) also said that there were no Singaporeans among the 15 new cases announced earlier on Thursday.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The worksite is in Kampong Bugis, while the three dorms are at 212 Tagore Lane, 63 Tuas South Avenue 1 and 109 Ubi Avenue 4.

All 15 are men who are asymptomatic and were swabbed as they are close contacts of previously confirmed cases. They had all also already been placed on quarantine. The remaining work pass holder was a housemate of an earlier confirmed case in Bendemeer Road, and has been quarantined at a government quarantine facility since May 30. He is a case of a past infection.

Foreign workers living in dormitories make up the rest of the 517 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country's total to 36,922. More than one in ten among this group have now tested positive for the virus.A cluster at 3 Buroh Lane has been closed as no new cases were linked to it for two incubation periods of the virus, or 28 days.

The full list of places, along with the dates and times when the locations were visited by the patients, are on MOH's website. The daily average for new community cases has decreased to five in the past week from six the week before, said MOH. Across the same periods, the number of unlinked cases has remained stable at an average of two per day.

 

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