Over half of 120 new COVID cases linked to Bugis Junction, North Coast Lodge

The ministry also announced two COVID-19 related fatalities, bringing the total death toll here to 52. An 86-year-old Singaporean man, partially vaccinated, and a 95-year-old Singaporean woman, unvaccinated, areOf the new cases, 118 are locally transmitted infections including 26 linked to the cluster at North Coast Lodge dormitory, which now has 112 cases.

There are two imported cases, one of whom was detected upon their arrival in Singapore, while one developed symptoms during their stay-home notice or isolation period. Staff who have been working in affected shops at Bugis Junction are being tested, and close contacts of confirmed cases will be quarantined, the MOH added.Of the 19 cases linked to the cluster at the Selarang Halfway House, 17 are supervisees and two are their household or workplace contacts.

It added that the seven-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 29.1 and 18.7 respectively.19 require oxygen supplementation; 7 in ICU Over the last 28 days, the percentage of unvaccinated who became severely ill or died is 9.2 per cent, while that for the fully vaccinated is 1.5 per cent, the ministry noted.

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