The Ministry of Health (MOH) has released a press release stating that there was a single community case of locally transmitted COVID-19 infection on 3 April.
Guess we might have cheered too soon…
A single community case
The case involves a 24-year-old female Myanmar domestic worker.
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She arrived in Singapore on 30 January and served her Stay-Home Notice (SHN) at a government facility until 13 February.
Her last COVID-19 test was conducted on 12 February and it came back negative.
After her SHN, she was transferred to a boarding house for foreign domestic workers while waiting to be assigned to an employer.
She stayed there until 9 March where she was then subsequently assigned to start working at her employer’s place.
She was asymptomatic
Being asymptomatic, a 24-year-old female Myanmar domestic worker was only detected when she was swabbed as part of MOH’s contact tracing efforts regarding another positive COVID-19 case which involves a 26-year-old Myanmar domestic worker.
The 26-year-old was in the same boarding house as she was and had interacted with her.
Developed symptoms on 23 March, the 26-year-old Myanmar national was confirmed to have COVID-19 on 25 March.
A local unlinked case
Currently, according to the MOH, both cases aren’t yet definitively linked since the symptomatic patient supposedly interacted with the asymptomatic one outside of her infectious period.
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However, as a precautionary measure, the 24-year-old domestic worker has been isolated.
All household members the domestic worker may have interacted with have also been placed under quarantine.
They will be tested for COVID-19 periodically.
Further contact tracing will be done as well.
253 Active Cases
As of 3 April, there are 253 active cases, out of which 212 are clinically well (asymptomatic) and are currently being cared for in community facilities.
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40 of those active cases are being treated for the infection at the hospital while one critical case is in the intensive care unit (ICU).
No deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported. The death count remains at 30.
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