469 COVID-19 Cases Today (27 Jul); 2 Community Cases & 15 Imported Cases

Yesterday, Singapore broke the record we didn’t want: we finally have over 50K COVID-19 cases.

And MOH said that we’d be seeing more daily cases from residents living in dormitories until 7 August 2020.

Today, the Ministry of Health has preliminarily confirmed an additional 469 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore.

This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 50,838.

Out of today’s cases, 2 are community cases, with 1 of them being a Singaporean or Singapore PR.

There are also 15 imported cases, and all of them were placed on Stay-Home Notice upon arrival in Singapore.

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 10 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.

And if you want the number to stay low, you’d have to tell those folks in East Coast Park to stay disciplined.

Loudhailers Used  in East Coast Park to Curb Crowds But People Are Allegedly Still Crowding There

If you went to East Coast Park yesterday (26 July) for a nice picnic, you might have thought a violent crime occurred there.

That’s because several police officers could be seen patrolling the beach, as well as safe distancing ambassadors, reported TODAYonline.

No real crime took place, of course, except people’s indifference to safe distancing rules.

Since so many were flouting the rules, safe distancing ambassadors who were patrolling the more crowded areas of the beach with loudhailers blared this message on loop: “For your safety, groups of more than five people are not permitted. Intermingling is not allowed.”

According to NParks, the loudhailers had been in use since last weekend, when the one-week school holiday begun.

Two groups actually admitted in an interview with TODAYonline that they had broken the rules. In fact, they tried to get around the rules by sitting further apart and leaving the group whenever enforcement officers were nearby.

I can almost hear Education Minister Lawrence Wong’s words in my mind now: “Don’t exploit each and every rule to the fullest possible degree, but to grasp the spirit of the rules and to take precautions.”

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