27 new Covid-19 cases in S'pore on Dec. 30, including 1 in community

More updates tonight.

Syahindah Ishak | December 30, 2020, 04:20 PM

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 27 new cases of Covid-19 in Singapore as of 12pm on Wednesday (Dec. 30).

This brings the total number of cases to 58,569.

26 cases are imported, of which 25 had been placed on Stay-Home Notice or isolated upon arrival in Singapore.

The remaining imported case is a pilot with Singapore Airlines (SIA) who had tested negative for Covid-19 upon return to Singapore but developed symptoms subsequently.

Amongst the imported cases, seven are Singaporeans/Singapore Permanent Residents, and six are foreign domestic workers.

There is also one case of locally-transmitted Covid-19 infection in the community.

Further updates will be shared by MOH this evening.

Daily cases in the past week

Here are the daily case numbers in the past week:

Dec. 23: 21

Dec. 24: 13

Dec. 25: 14

Dec. 26: 10

Dec. 27: 5

Dec. 28: 5

Dec. 29: 13

Dec. 30: 27

Top image from Changi General Hospital/FB.