COVID-19: MOH confirms 2 new community cases, both Singaporean teens

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The two community cases are Singaporean teens linked to a previously confirmed case.

SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Health confirmed five new COVID-19 cases in Singapore as of Wednesday noon, taking the country’s total cases to 57,889.The two cases are contacts of a previously confirmed case. Cases 58045, a 13-year-old Singaporean boy, and 58047, a 10-year-old Singaporean girl, had earlier been identified as contacts of Case 57947. All three cases are family members residing in the same household.

99% of total cases have recovered; none in ICUWith 12 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Wednesday, 57,752 cases – or 99.8 per cent of the total – have fully recovered from the infection. Most of the 39 hospitalised cases are stable or improving, while none is in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

A total of 70 patients with mild symptoms or are clinically well but still test positive are isolated and cared for at community facilities. Apart from 28 patients who have died from COVID-19 complications, 15 others who tested positive for the virus were determined to have died from unrelated causes, including three whose deaths were attributed to a heart attack and another four, whose deaths were attributed to coronary heart disease.

 

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