COVID-19: Singapore confirms two new cases; four discharged

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JUST IN: No immediate links to previous cases have been announced for the two confirmed cases, and contact tracing is underway to establish any such links or travel history to China.

Four more patients have been discharged from the hospital. This brings the total of those who have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged to 62, more than half of the total confirmed cases.

7 in ICU; most remaining cases stableOn Friday, MOH said that most of the 31 remaining patients in the hospital are stable or improving. Seven remain in critical condition in the intensive care unit. COVID-19’s death toll surpasses SARS epidemicThe novel strain belongs to the same family of coronaviruses as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , which killed nearly 800 people globally during a 2002-2003 outbreak and also started in China.

To date, the virus has left more than 2,700 people in China dead and sickened over 81,000 globally. Over 30 deaths related to the outbreak have been reported outside mainland China.

 

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