The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed an additional 301 cases of Covid-19 in Singapore on Thursday, Aug. 6.

This brings the total number of cases to 54,555.

New places visited by Covid-19 cases

Several new locations have been added to the list of places visited by Covid-19 cases during their infectious period.

These include:

• Jul. 28 12pm to 1:15pm Gek Poh Shopping Centre (762 Jurong West Street 75)
• Jul. 30 6:20pm to 7:20pm The Heart, Marina One Show Gallery (5 Straits View) Standing Sushi Bar
• Jul. 30 7:40pm to 8:25pm FairPrice Hub (1 Joo Koon Circle) Decathlon
• Jul. 31 11:50am to 12:45pm West Mall (1 Bukit Batok Central Link)
• Jul. 31 4:20pm to 5:20pm Evolution Hub (492 Jurong West Street 42)
• Jul. 31 7:45pm to 8:35pm West Mall (1 Bukit Batok Central Link)
• Aug. 2 2pm to 3:30pm Tang Tea House (414 Jurong West Street 42)
• Aug. 3 2:30pm to 3pm Sheng Siong Supermarket (61 Teban Gardens Road)
• Aug. 3 6pm to 6:30pm Food Paradise (21 Bukit Batok Central)
• Aug. 4 9am to 10:30am Bukit Batok ActiveSG Gym (2 Bukit Batok Street 22)

Case details

The vast majority are work permit holders residing in foreign worker dormitories.

Of the four cases in the community, two were picked up as a result of proactive surveillance and screening.

Two of the cases are asymptomatic, and were detected through proactive testing. One community case today is linked to a previous case.

Case 54627 was detected from proactive screening of workers in essential services who are living outside the dormitories, even though he is asymptomatic.

To determine if this is a current or past infection, a serological test was conducted, and the result has come back positive, which indicates likely past infection.

Three community cases are currently unlinked.

Case 54459 was swabbed as part of active case finding efforts. His serological test has come back positive, indicating a likely past infection.

The remaining two cases were tested as part of community testing. Case 54581 was detected under enhanced community testing to test all individuals aged 13 and above who are diagnosed with acute respiratory infection (ARI) at first presentation to a doctor.

Case 54580 was tested after he sought medical treatment for prolonged ARI symptoms.

Epidemiological investigations of the unlinked cases are in progress.

In the meantime, all the identified close contacts have been isolated and placed on quarantine, and will be tested at the start and end of their quarantine period so that asymptomatic cases can be detected.

Overall, the number of new cases in the community has decreased, from an average of three cases per day in the week before, to an average of two per day in the past week.

The number of unlinked cases in the community has remained stable at an average of one case per day in the past 14 days.

Four imported cases

There are four new imported cases.

Amongst the four imported cases, one (Case 54617) is a Singaporean who returned to Singapore from Kazakhstan on Jul. 25.

Another two cases (Cases 54619 and 54621) are Work Pass holders who are currently employed in Singapore, and had arrived from India on Jul. 25.

The remaining case (Case 54620) is a Dependent’s Pass holder who arrived from India on Jul. 25.

All of them had been placed on 14-day Stay-Home Notice (SHN) upon arrival in Singapore, and were serving their SHN at dedicated facilities. They had been tested while serving their SHN.

112 remain in hospitals

263 more cases of Covid-19 infection have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities.

In all, 48,031 have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged from hospitals or community care facilities.

There are currently 112 confirmed cases who are still in hospital. Of these, most are stable or improving, and none is in the intensive care unit.

6,385 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.

27 have passed away from complications due to Covid-19 infection.

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