The higher reported daily tally – the city-state’s highest in a month – is mainly due to fewer tests being conducted by the COVID-19 testing laboratories over the public holiday and weekend on 10 July and 11 July, with the backlog of samples being cleared from 12 July, said the ministry.Of the new cases, 11 – including on Singaporean and one permanent resident – are classified as cases in the community, while five – including two PRs – are imported cases.
Of the seven unlinked community cases, six – cases 46248, 46249, 46250, 46251, 46252 and 46253 – are asymptomatic, and were identified from the periodic screening of workers in essential services who are living outside dorms.Epidemiological investigations of the seven unlinked cases are in progress. Similarly, the number of unlinked cases in the community has also increased, from an average of six per day in the week before, to an average of eight per day in the past week.
“All of them had been placed on 14-day stay-home notice upon arrival in Singapore, and had been tested while serving their SHN,” said the MOH. As of 6 July June, 180,000 foreign workers have been cleared of COVID-19, including those residing in government-provided accommodation facilities. A forecast of dormitories and blocks to be cleared from now till August onwards has been published on the ministry’s website.
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