11 COVID-19 Cases Today (9 Feb); All Are Imported & 1 of Them is a Cabin Crew with SIA

Today is a good day with fewer imported cases and no community case.

As of 12pm today (9 Feb), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 11 new cases of COVID-19 infection.

All of them are imported cases. However, only 10 of them were in SHN; the remaining case is a cabin crew with Singapore Airlines who was on a turnaround flight and had not disembarked from the aircraft at the overseas destination. She developed symptoms a few days after returning to Singapore.

This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 59,732.

Based on yesterday’s figures,  the number of new cases in the community has increased from 3 cases in the week before to 4 cases in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has also increased from 2 cases in the week before to 4 cases in the past week.

1 of the Community Cases Reported on 8 Feb is a Bus Driver Transporting SHN Travellers; Had Ignored His Symptoms as Well

22 new Covid-19 cases were reported on Monday (8 Feb), of which two were from the community.

The remaining 20 cases were from abroad and had all been placed on stay-home notices upon their arrival here.

One of them is a Singaporean bus driver employed by Cobb & Coach Services. His job entails fetching passengers from Changi Airport to the dedicated stay-home notice facilities.

His bus is disinfected after every trip.

The man developed a runny nose on 31 Jan, but did not seek medical attention.

His infection was only detected when he was tested for the virus on 5 Feb as part of the regular routine testing of workers.

He was taken to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) after getting a positive result.

His serology test has come back negative, indicating that this is likely a fresh infection.

The other community case is a 30-year-old Indian national who works as an engineer at Station Satcom.

His job entails boarding ships to install communications and IT equipment.

The man had been placed on quarantine from 13 to 24 Jan after being identified as a close contact of a previous case.

However, swabs taken during this period were negative for the virus, as was another test on 29 Jan.

But a few days later, on 4 Feb, the man experienced fatigue and a fever.

Like so many other recent cases, however, the man did not seek medical attention.

His infection was only detected when he was tested as part of the regular routine testing of workers on 5 Feb.

After his infection was confirmed, he too, was taken to NCID.

Interestingly, while his serological test has also come back positive, the authorities believe it is still a recent infection.

They attribute his positive result to his vaccination on 27 Jan, as it had produced antibodies by the time he was tested.

208 Active Cases

There are currently 44 confirmed cases who are still in hospital. Of these, most are stable or improving, and 1 is in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

164 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.

29 have passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection.

In the meantime, if you’ve not, you should download the TraceTogether app so that contact tracing can be done easily. If you’re worried about your privacy, watch this video to the end:

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