23 new cases of Covid-19 reported on Jan. 8, 2021, 2 in the community

Today's initial update.

Matthias Ang | January 08, 2021, 03:47 PM

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The Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 23 cases of Covid-19 in Singapore as of 12pm on Friday (Jan. 8).

This brings the total number of cases to 58,836.

There are two new cases of locally-transmitted Covid-19 infection.

Based on MOH's investigations so far, both cases are in the community, and there are no new cases in the dormitories.

21 cases announced today are imported and were placed on Stay-Home Notice upon arrival in Singapore.

Further updates will be shared by MOH this evening.

Daily cases in past week

Here are the daily case numbers in the first week of 2021:

Jan. 1: 30

Jan. 2: 33

Jan. 3: 35

Jan. 4: 24

Jan. 5: 28

Jan. 6: 31

Jan. 7: 33

Jan. 8: 23

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