11 COVID-19 Cases Today (6 Oct); 4 Imported Cases & 2 Community Cases

October has started pretty well—at least in Singapore.

As of 12pm today, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminary confirmed 11 new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 infection.

This brings the total in Singapore to 57,830 cases.

Out of today’s cases, 2 are community cases.

There are 4 imported cases, and they’ve all been placed on Stay-Home Notice upon arrival in Singapore.

Nevertheless, based on yesterday’s numbers, on average, the number of new cases in the community has increased from an average of fewer than 1 case per day in the week before, to an average of 1 case in the past week.

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

Yesterday’s Sole Community Case is a Student in a Private School

The only community case reported yesterday been identified as a contact of a previously confirmed case who is her household member, and was placed on quarantine on 3 October.

The 15-year-old student, who’s from India,  developed symptoms the next day, and was tested and subsequently conveyed to a hospital when her test result came back positive on the same day.

She is a student at a private school, and was last in school on 2 October before onset of symptoms.

It wasn’t mentioned which school she studies in.