Singapore's daily COVID-19 cases fall to six-month low with 18 new infections

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JUST IN: Singapore reports 18 new cases of COVID19, its lowest daily figure in six months

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One community case who is a work pass holder and two imported infections were among Thursday's new cases. Both the imported cases were placed on stay-home notice upon their arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health in its preliminary daily update.Singapore now has a total of 57,532 COVID-19 cases, the majority of which have recovered.On Wednesday, a 59-year-old Singaporean who was listed as a COVID-19 case was removed from the tally of cases.

He had been classified as an imported case on Sep 5 after returning from Australia and testing positive for COVID-19. Investigations by laboratory experts and an expert panel found that his first test result was a false-positive one, MOH said. "All necessary public health actions had been taken earlier and neither the case nor his contacts had been exposed to risk of infection due to the initial classification," said the ministry.

 

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