Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is it: about 6 months after Singapore reported its first COVID-19 case, we’ve officially hit the 50K mark.
Today, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 481 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore.
This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 50,369 cases; that’s almost 1% of the whole Singapore population.
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Out of today’s cases, 5 are community cases, and all of them are work pass holders.
There are also 4 imported cases who had been placed on Stay-Home Notice upon arrival in S’pore.
Most of the cases are residents living in dormitories.
Based on yesterday’s numbers, on average, the number of new cases in the community has decreased, from an average of 9 cases per day in the week before, to an average of 7 per day in the past week.
The number of unlinked cases in the community has also decreased, from an average of 5 cases per day in the week before, to an average of 4 per day in the past week.
In addition, yesterday, a hotel was added to the list of places an infectious community case has been to—and it happened shortly after staycation was allowed.
Hotel Included in List of Places Infectious COVID-19 Have Been After Staycation is Allowed
In the updated list of places that infectious COVID-19 cases have been, two new places were added yesterday (25 July 2020): A minimart in Geylang and a hotel in Balestier.
In fact, the hotel, Ramada Singapore at Zhongshan Park, was visited not once but five times by an infectious patient / patients.
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It’s unknown whether someone’s been there for a staycation or not, because the timing provides are rather scattered:
- 12 July, 12:50pm to 6:20pm
- 14 July, 12:45pm to 4:45pm
- 18 July, 6:50pm to 8:50pm
- 19 July, 7:45pm to 9:05pm
- 20 July, 5:20pm to 8:05pm
It was, however, not 1 of the 18 hotels that have been confirmed to allow staycations reported about 10 days after applications open, so the first few visits might not have been for staycations. It’s now approved for staycation.
The parent company of the hotel, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, is a listed company in the US and has over 9,000 hotels.
This is the latest list of places that infectious COVID-19 has been to:
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In the latest virtual press conference by the multi-ministry task force to fight COVID-19, it was revealed that almost 40% of community cases have been engaging in community activities even when they’re sick. So do everyone a favour by staying home if you’re sick, because it has been mentioned numerous times that restrictions would be imposed on specific areas that have a cluster (e.g. if hotels have clusters, then staycations might be banned again).
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