It’s 11 June and today, 422 Covid-19 cases are reported by the Ministry of Health (MOH).
The bad news is, of course, the total number of Covid-19 cases seemingly increasing again, although you must remember that the number fluctuates based on how many tests are run that day.
The good news is, community cases has dropped back (for a while) to single-digit again.
There are 5 community cases: 1 Singaporean/PR while 4 are work pass holders.
Foreign workers living in dormitories make up the remaining numbers.
Students & a Staff Member Who Were Reported with Coronavirus on Sunday Have All Recovered
Remember the 5 students and one staff from schools that tested positive for Covid-19 on 7 Jun?
According to the Ministry of Health (MOH), all six cases are asymptomatic ones, displaying mild symptoms and has low viral loads.
After repeating the test on the patients, it came back negative.
All six patients have since recovered and all five students have been discharged from the hospital.
The staff is still in the hospital because there are some administrative issues that have not been completed yet.
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All Six Were Picked Up From Proactive Screening
Last time, when Singapore first started battling Covid-19, we were only doing 2,000 tests a day.
Now, we’re doing 13,000 tests a day and soon, we might be doing 40,000 tests daily.
With the capability to do more tests, MOH is also moving from reactive screening (testing only if there are symptoms) to proactive screening (testing more people even if they look okay on the outside).
They have expanded the scope of their active case finding:Â Students (above 12 years old) and staff who sees a doctor for the first time for acute respiratory infections (read: cough, sneeze, sore throat, fever, etc) will be tested for Covid-19.
Previously, people are only tested if they don’t recover after 5 days.
It was this expansion of scope that led to the six cases being detected earlier.
Not Covid-19 Clusters
The schools that the six Covid-19 cases are from are not being considered as Covid-19 clusters because these cases were deemed to have been infected before school started on 2 June.
It was announced that if a Covid-19 cluster was to form within a school, that particular school will be closed.
With safe distancing measures and stepped up testing, however, MOE is confident that they will not let things get to that stage.
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