23 New Covid-19 Cases In The Community Reported Today (6 Jul); 183 Cases In Total

Yesterday, we said that it wasn’t a good day for Singapore because there were 18 new cases in the community.

Well, if you’re hoping for a respite today, you’re not going to get it.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) preliminarily reported 183 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore today.

This brings the total number of cases up to 44,983.

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

There are 23 new Covid-19 cases in the community; 20 work pass holders and 3 Singaporean/PRs.

There are also 3 import cases.

Community Cases On 5 Jul 2020

On 5 July, there are 18 cases in the community, with 6 being Singaporeans / Singapore PRs.

They include:

• A two-year-old girl, a 20-year-old Millennia Institute student, both Singaporeans and three other Singaporeans.
• one PR

The other (12) community cases were made up of two work pass holders and 10 work permit holders.

Ten of the community cases were linked to previous cases or clusters. The remaining eight were unlinked cases as of Sunday.

Of the unlinked cases, five were asymptomatic cases (no symptoms or very mild ones) and were only detected because of MOH’s proactive testing for people working in essential services.

The remaining three cases were picked up by the enhanced criteria where everyone above 13 years old and seeing a doctor for acute respiratory infections (ARI) must take a swab test.

See A Doctor Even For The ‘Sniffles’

The man who’s at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19, Mr Lawrence Wong, has told everyone in Singapore to be paranoid about their health.

Even if you have the “sniffles” (read: we probably called it runny nose), go and see a doctor, he urged.

Which makes sense because if you look at Singapore’s current measures, most of it only works if people, who know their own bodies better than anyone else, are willing to go to the doctor and get tested the moment they think something is wrong.

He pointed out that the risk of transmission now is higher because unlike Circuit Breaker, we’re now going out more.

The problem starts when we start ignoring our bodies’ signals, such as feeling feverish or having flu-like symptoms, and go out to meet other people.

Because that’s when you’ll have something like this happen:

Mr Lawrence Wong urges for Singaporeans not to take unnecessary risks, to avoid people and see a doctor if you show even a slight sign of a symptom.

Lest you’ve forgotten, polling day will be on this Friday (10 July). So what happens if you didn’t vote? Would you be jailed? Would you be barred from buying bubble tea for the next five years? Watch this video and you’ll know the consequences: