The Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 42 cases of Covid-19 in Singapore as of 12pm on Aug. 12.
This brings the total number of cases to 55,395.
Case info
The vast majority are work permit holders who are currently under quarantine.
There is one case outside of dormitories, who is a Singaporean.
There are also 11 imported cases, all of whom were placed on Stay-Home Notice or isolated upon arrival in Singapore.
Further updates will be shared by MOH this evening.
Here are the daily case numbers for the month of August so far:
August 1: 307
August 2: 313
August 3: 226
August 4: 295
August 5: 908
August 6: 301
August 7: 242
August 8: 132
August 9: 175
August 10: 188
August 11: 61
August 12: 42
New Covid-19 cases detected in cleared dormitories
On Tuesday, Aug. 11, MOM said that all dormitories have been declared cleared of Covid-19 as of that day, with the exception of 17 standalone blocks in six Purpose-Built Dormitories (PBDs) serving as quarantine facilities.
This means that all workers living in dormitories have either recovered or have been tested to be free from the virus, except for 22,500 workers in isolation in Centralised Government Quarantine Facilities and the remaining 17 standalone blocks in PBDs.
In a joint statement on the same day, the Ministry of Manpower, the Building and Construction Authority, the Economic Development Board, and the Health Promotion Board announced that there have been instances where new cases of Covid-19 were detected at previously-cleared dormitories.
The statement said that the Inter-agency Task Force (ITF) is actively monitoring the dormitories to manage the risk of new outbreaks.
Top photo via Facebook / NUHS.