31 New Covid-19 Cases Reported Today (21 Sep); No Cases In The Community

Boon Hun

2020-09-21 , 3:49 pm

As of 12pm on 21 Sep, the Ministry of Health (MOH) reported 31 new Covid-19 cases.

This is the first time Singapore’s daily new cases has exceeded 20 since 16 Sep 2020.

This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 57,607.

There are no cases in the community, based on investigations so far.

There are, however, 9 imported cases.

All imported cases have been placed on Stay-Home-Notice (SHN) upon arrival in Singapore.

20 Sep Case Details:

Yesterday (20 Sep), Singapore reported 18 new Covid-19 cases.

And all 18 of them are asymptomatic cases, including the sole community case.

1 Case In The Community

The case in the community is a 28-year-old Bangladeshi man.

He was detected through the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) routine rostered testing (RRT) of workers in the marine, construction and processing sectors living outside of dormitories.

All close contacts have been identified and placed on isolation, the ministry says, and they will be tested for asymptomatic cases as well.

It was added that his household contacts will be given the serological test too to check if they’ve been previously infected and transmitted the coronavirus to him.

4 Imported Cases

All 4 imported cases detected yesterday were placed on Stay-Home-Notice (SHN) upon arrival in Singapore.

Two of them comes from the Philippines and arrived here on 8 Sep.

Another imported case is a student’s pass holder who arrived in Singapore on 9 Sep.

The remaining case is a dependant’s pass holder who reached here on 15 Sep 2020.

13 Migrant Workers Living In Dormitories

According to MOH, the remaining 13 cases are migrant workers living in dormitories.

Five of the cases are contacts of earlier-confirmed cases and have been placed on quarantine previously.

Another 8 were detected through surveillance testing, like the bi-weekly RRT.

A majority of the cases in recent days were detected through surveillance testing, which explains why the authorities are stubborn about not letting workers go back to work if their employers have not scheduled them in the system for the first mandatory RRT.

Telco Office Visited By Covid-19 Cases

In a refreshing change, the single addition to MOH’s list of places visited by Covid-19 cases yesterday was a Telco office, Zero1.

MOH revealed that on 13 Sep 2020 at 1.05pm to 2.40pm, the Zero1 office at Trivex (8 Burn Road) at Tai Seng was visited by a Covid-19 case.

Here is the full list for your reference:

If you went through the list and realise that you’ve been there around the same time period, don’t panic.

Just monitor your health for the next 14 days and make sure to see a doctor at the slightest sign of something wrong.

Don’t avoid these places too since the National Environment Agency (NEA) would’ve gotten in touch with the location’s management to do a thorough cleaning of the area.