The imported infections included seven Singaporeans and three permanent residents who returned
There were 26 new coronavirus cases confirmed at noon on Tuesday (March 30), taking Singapore’s total to 60,347.
They were all imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notices on arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
All of them were asymptomatic, and were detected from MOH’s proactive screening and surveillance.
There were no new cases in the community or workers’ dormitories.
The imported infections included seven Singaporeans and three permanent residents who returned from Bangladesh, India, Qatar, Spain and the United Kingdom.
There were three student’s pass holders who arrived from Bangladesh and India.
Another two were work pass holders who travelled from India and Nepal.
There were also seven work permit holders who arrived from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, of whom five were foreign domestic workers.
The remaining four patients were short-term visit pass holders.
Two of them travelled from India to visit their family members while two were in Singapore for work projects, said MOH.
It added that the number of new cases in the community had increased from none in the week before, to two cases in the past week.
The number of unlinked cases in the community had also increased from zero to two in the same period.
With seven cases discharged on Tuesday, 60,123 have fully recovered from the disease.
A total of 37 patients remained in hospital, including one in critical condition in the intensive care unit, while 142 were still recuperating in community facilities.
Singapore has had 30 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died of other causes.
Globally, the virus outbreak, which began in December 2019, has infected more than 127 million people. More than 2.78 million people have died.
