COVID-19 Updates Singapore (5 Mar): 5 New Cases with 1 New Cluster Identified

Both WHO and researchers from Harvard have praised our COVID-19 detection method, and if you’re still not convinced, you would be after reading today’s announcement.

In one day, MOH managed to find out the source of infection from people who were previously infected from unknown sources, like Case 112 who works in a pre-school, and link her to a new cluster, and then even linking the cluster to a case, Case 94, who is linked to RI student.

I know you’re confused; just know that the authorities are doing their contact tracing so thoroughly, the last COVID-19 case might eventually be linked to the very first COVID-19 case.

Today, a new cluster is identified: it’s a private dinner in SAFRA dinner that includes 4 of the cases announced today and 4 cases announced earlier.

5 New COVID-19 Cases in S’pore Today; 1 Imported Case & 1 New Cluster at SAFRA Jurong Identified

The first patient is an imported case: a 42-year-old French national who works in Singapore. He was overseas and came back to Singapore on 3 March 2020, and was tested positive yesterday afternoon.

The second, third, fourth and fifth patient are all linked to a private dinner function at SAFRA Jurong on 15 February 2020. They are a 42-year-old male Singaporean, a 62-year-old female Singaporean, a 50-year-old female Singaporean and a 52-year-old female Singaporean. All of them were tested positive either yesterday afternoon and this morning.

This means there are now a total of 117 confirmed cases here in Singapore, and MOH hasn’t established any source of infections for 12 of them.

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Updates on Confirmed Cases

81 patients have recovered and are discharged from hospital. Just like yesterday, 7 are still in ICU. The conditions of the remaining 29 patients are either stable or improving.

As of noon today, MOH has identified 3,204 close contacts who have been quarantined. Of these, 355 are currently quarantined, and 2,849 have completed their quarantine.

For your reference, these are now the local clusters that have been identified:

• Grace Assembly of God + The Life Church and Missions Singapore = 29 cases
• Wizlearn Technologies = 14 cases
• SAFRA private dinner = 8 cases
• Yong Thai Hang shop = 9 cases
• Seletar Aerospace Heights construction site = 5 cases
• Grand Hyatt Singapore = 3 cases (more overseas)

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