The ministry also reported that two men, who tested positive for the virus, had died of unrelated causes, bringing the total of such deaths to nine.
“But the number of daily cases continues to rise as we are also testing the workers who are well and asymptomatic, as part of our process to verify and test the status of every worker. We had started this intensive testing at the purpose-built dormitories, and are now doing so for the factory-converted dormitories,” it added.
— Yahoo Singapore May 12, 2020 Prior to her admission into the CGH, the patient service associate, identified as case 24255, had gone to work for a few hours. Prior to her admission into the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, the nurse clinician, identified as case 24016, had not gone to work since developing the symptoms.
The number of new cases among foreign workers residing outside dorms has also decreased from an average of seven cases per day in the week before, to an average of six per day in the past week. The three are among the 25 dorms that have been gazetted as isolation areas and account for some 23 per cent of 22,334 total infected cases across all dorms. Some 400,000 foreign workers live in dorms here in Singapore.
Story continuesMost of the 1,132 hospitalised cases are stable or improving, while 20 are in critical condition in the intensive care unit, down from 24 on Monday.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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