15 New Covid-19 Cases Reported Today (24 Sep); No Cases In The Community

As of 12pm on 24 Sep 2020, the Ministry of Health (MOH) preliminarily reported 15 new Covid-19 cases.

This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 57,654.

Based on investigations so far, there are no cases in the community.

There are 5 imported cases, all of whom were placed on Stay-Home-Notice (SHN) upon arrival in Singapore.

Details On 23 Sep Cases

On 23 Sep 2020, Singapore reported 12 new Covid-19 cases.

That’s right: 12, with single digits for all three categories of cases.

Here are the breakdown and the deets on yesterday’s reported cases.

Community Case

On 23 Sep, there are 7 cases from dormitories, 4 imported cases and 1 single case in the community.

The sole case in the community is a work pass holder who was identified as a contact of a previously confirmed case and was placed on quarantine.

He is an asymptomatic case.

4 Imported Cases

Out of the 4 imported cases, 3 came to Singapore from India.

Case 57776, 57782 and 57783 are Singapore permanent residents who returned to Singapore from India on 11 Sep 2020.

The last remaining imported case, Case 57781, is a work pass holder who returned to Singapore from Iran on the same day, 11 Sep 2020.

All four cases were placed on Stay-Home-Notice (SHN) upon arrival in Singapore.

Dormitory Cases

Out of the 7 cases from dormitories, 4 of them are contacts of previously confirmed cases and were already placed on quarantine.

The remaining 3 cases were detected through MOH’s surveillance testing.

It was reported that all 12 cases detected on 23 Sep 2020 are asymptomatic cases.

This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases in Singapore to 57,639.

Overall Covid-19 Situation

29 more cases have been discharged from the hospitals and community care facilities, MOH reported on 23 Sep, which brings the total number of recoveries to 57,291.

There are another 36 cases still in the hospitals, and most of them are in stable or improving conditions.

There are zero Covid-19 cases in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Another 285 cases are being cared for at Community Care Facilities (CCFs).

Easing of Measures:

On 23 Sep, the multi-ministry task force also highlighted that Covid-19 measures in Singapore will be eased in the near future.

This includes allowing more employees to return to the workplace, allowing events to resume in the office (within reason), increase capacity limits for places of worship and wedding receptions, as well as new mask-wearing rules.

You can find out more here.

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