People on stand-up paddleboards at East Coast Park in Singapore. (PHOTO: Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images) SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed 13 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore as of noon on Saturday (5 December), taking the country’s total to 58,255.
There is one new case of locally-transmitted infection.
“Based on our investigations so far, the case is in the community and had already been placed on quarantine earlier. There are no new cases in the dormitories,” said the ministry.
“In addition, there are 12 imported cases. Of these, 11 had already been placed on Stay-Home Notice or isolated upon arrival in Singapore.
“The remaining case is a Singaporean who had travelled to Indonesia under the Business Travel Pass. He had undergone a COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction test upon return to Singapore on 28 November, and self-isolated while waiting for his test result.
“His test came back negative on 29 November but he developed symptoms on 2 December, and was confirmed to have COVID-19 infection on 4 December.”
More details will be provided later at night, said the MOH.
This story will be updated later.
99% of total cases have recovered; none in ICU With seven more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Friday, 58,152 cases – or 99.8 per cent of the total – have fully recovered from the infection.
Most of the 28 hospitalised cases are stable or improving, and none are in the intensive care unit.
A total of 33 patients – with mild symptoms or are clinically well but still test positive – are isolated and cared for at community facilities.
Apart from 29 patients who have died from COVID-19 complications , 15 others who tested positive for the virus were determined to have died from unrelated causes, including three whose deaths were attributed to a heart attack and another four, whose deaths were attributed to coronary heart disease.
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