It’s A Good Day Today (14 Aug) As S’pore Reports 83 New Covid-19 Cases With Zero Community Cases

After a brief foray into the three-digit, we are now back in the 2-digits again.

But that’s not the best part.

As of 12pm on 14 Aug 2020, Singapore reports 83 new Covid-19 cases. This brings the total to 55,580.

Foreign workers residing in dormitories make up a vast majority of the cases.

There 4 imported cases who were placed on Stay-Home-Notice (SHN) since their arrival in Singapore.

And there is 0 case in the community. Zero. So far.

More details will be released tonight by the MOH.

More Details On 13 Aug Cases:

On 13 Aug 2020, it was reported that there were 6 imported cases detected.

Two of them are Singaporeans while the remaining four are special pass holders.

One of the Singaporeans, case 55482, came back from the Philippines on 11 Aug 2020.

The other Singaporean, case 55561, returned home from the UAE on 1 Aug.

The four special pass holders are seamen who reached Singapore from India on 8 Aug on a vessel.

They did not disembark from the vessel.

Cases 55555, 55556, 55557 and 55558 subsequently reported symptoms and were tested on the vessel.

When their results came back positive, they were taken to a hospital by ambulance.

MOH also reported 5 new cases in the community, 1 permanent resident and 4 work pass holders.

Four were detected through MOH’s proactive surveillance and screening while one was already on quarantine.

All 5 cases were asymptomatic cases.

Four of the community cases are currently unlinked.

Epidemiological investigations (read: contact tracing) are ongoing for the unlinked cases while all identified close contacts of the cases have been isolated and quarantined.

They will be tested at the beginning and end of the quarantine period.

So far, the average number of community cases per day and unlinked cases per day remained stable at 2 and 1 respectively.

Khatib HomeTeamNS Visited By Covid-19 Patients Five Times

Two confirmed COVID-19 cases visited the clubhouse five times between 31 July 2020 and 3 August 2020.

We got to know about the visits through the MOH list that is updated daily, and lest you’ve not been checking it, here are the dates:

31 July 2020, 5:45pm to 9pm
1 August 2020: 2pm to 2:45pm (Suki-Suki Thai Hot Pot) and 6:40pm to 8:45pm (Orchid Live Seafood)
2 August 2020: 2:45pm to 6:30pm
3 August 2020: 1:40pm to 8pm

It’s unknown whether they’re working there or they simply love the place, but HomeTeamNS has provided more details, saying that the two individuals have visited the premises “on five occasions between 31 July and 3 August 2020” and that “they are currently receiving medical attention in the hospital.”

Both people were asymptomatic during the time of their visit and did not display any symptoms.

According to HomeTeamNS, they were only contacted by MOH on 11 August 2020.

Since then, the affected outlets and all common areas at the HomeTeamNS Khatib Clubhouse have been thoroughly disinfected by a National Environmental Agency appointed cleaning agency on 12 August 2020.

No Herd Immunity For Foreign Workers

Now, if you’re hoping desperately for a miracle to happen in the next few months, such as overnight herd immunity, your hopes will be dashed.

The official tally for foreign workers living in dormitories has been revealed and it shows that at least 1 in 6 foreign workers (living in dormitories) were infected with Covid-19.

Yet, they did not develop any herd immunity.

To add on to the improbability (of your dream), there is also no evidence showing that getting infected with Covid-19 will give you ‘long-lasting’ protection against the coronavirus.

As an expert has pointed out, there is some evidence showing that a person might get up to three month’s protection against Covid-19.

That’s all.

To find out more, you might want to check out this article here.