87 New Covid-19 Cases Reported Today (23 Aug); 1 Case In The Community

As of 12pm today, 23 Aug 2020, the Ministry of Health (MOH) preliminarily reported 87 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore.

This brings the total to 56,353.

There is 1 case in the community, a work pass holder and 13 imported cases.

All imported cases were placed on Stay-Home-Notice upon arrival in Singapore.

More details will be released tonight.

Details On 22 Aug Cases

There are 2 new Covid-19 cases in the community on 22 Aug 2020.

One of the patients, a 63-year-old woman was admitted to a hospital for a separate medical condition. She was then tested and found to have contracted the virus on Friday.

The other case involves a 56-year-old woman who works at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) College Central.

Suffering from an acute respiratory infection, she was tested under MOH’s enhanced community testing and found to have the coronavirus. She had gone to work after showing symptoms on Wednesday and was only tested positive on Friday.

Both cases are unlinked to previous infections.

As for the imported cases, there was a Singaporean returning from Iran, a student’s pass holder, 2 dependant’s pass holders and a work permit holder currently working in Singapore.

All cases were tested while on their stay-home notices (SHN) at dedicated facilities.

Overall Situation

As of 22 August 2020, on average, the number of new cases in the community has remained stable at an average of 2 cases per day in the past 2 weeks.

The number of unlinked cases in the community has also remained stable at an average of 1 case per day in the past 2 weeks.

Also, an additional 269 cases of COVID-19 infection have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities. In all, 53,920 have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged from hospitals or community care facilities.

There are currently 81 confirmed cases who are still in the hospital. Of these, most are stable or improving, and none is in the intensive care unit. 2,238 are isolated and cared for at community facilities. These are those who have mild symptoms or are clinically well but still test positive for COVID-19. 27 have passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection.

Below is the updated list of places infectious COVID-19 cases have been for more than 30 minutes:

As usual, there is no need to avoid places where confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been, and you just need to monitor your health if you’ve been to these places during these timings.

New Covid-19 Cluster Reported At S’pore’s Biggest Dormitory

2 of the 50 cases reported on 22 Aug were linked to 55 other previous cases to form a new cluster at Sungei Tengah Lodge.

Sungei Tengah Lodge houses 16,000 workers, making it Singapore’s largest dormitory.

It was the fourth dormitory to be declared an isolation area on 9 Apr 2020.

2,303 Covid-19 cases were confirmed at Sungei Tengah Lodge, as of 17 July, which makes it the second-largest cluster in Singapore.

It was given the all-clear on 21 July and it reportedly only houses workers who had recovered from the disease or were tested negative for the virus.