233 New Covid-19 Cases On 12 Apr, Over 70% Have No Links Yet

Singapore Reports 233 New Covid-19 Cases On 12 Apr

The Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed 233 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore on Sunday (12 Apr).

All are local transmissions, with 167 or more than 70% having no known links to clusters or previous cases yet.

MOH also revealed the discovery of 7 new clusters, three of which are at workers’ dormitories.

7 new clusters & more Covid-19 cases at workers’ dormitories

Successful contact tracing has linked 68 cases to 7 new clusters as follows:

• Acacia Lodge, 530-540 Bukit Batok Street 23 – 15 cases
• Tuas View Dormitory, 70 Tuas South Avenue 1 – 8 cases
• 36 Woodlands Industrial Park E1 – 20 cases
• 85 Kallang Dormitory, 85 Kallang Avenue – 5 cases
• Black Tap, 10 Bayfront Avenue – 8 cases
• Kenyon/ UBS construction site, 9 Penang Road – 8 cases
• McDonald’s at Forum, Lido and Parklane – 4 cases

6 of the cases were confirmed on Sunday (12 Apr) — 3 at Acacia Lodge, 2 at Tuas View Dormitory and 1 at McDonald’s.

Acacia Lodge at Bukit Batok
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The other 62 were earlier cases that MOH only recently traced all the connections to.

Of the cases confirmed over the weekend, 92 are from various workers’ dormitories across Singapore, in the following order:

• S11 Dormitory @ Punggol – 30 new, 365 total
• Westlie Toh Guan dormitory – 7 new, 76 total
• Toh Guan dormitory – 5 new, 45 total
• Sungei Tengah Lodge – 17 new, 80 total
• Tampines dormitory – 1 new, 51 total
• Kranji Lodge – 4 new, 13 total
• Cochrane Lodge I – 10 new, 32 total
• Cochrane Lodge II – 6 new, 17 total
• Shaw Lodge – 8 new, 16 total
• Cassia @ Penjuru – 4 new, 9 total

With rigorous health checks ongoing at the dorms, we can expect to see a continuous rise in cases there in the coming days.

S11 Dormitory @ Punggol
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New links have also been found to these 5 clusters:

• 31 Sungei Kadut Avenue and 21B Senoko Loop – 2 new, 11 total
• Project Glory construction site – 4 new, 46 total
• National University Hospital renovation sites – 4 new, 20 total
• Mustafa Centre – 4 new, 82 total
• The Orange Ballroom – 1 new, 5 total

167 still pending contact tracing

Among the 233 cases confirmed on Sunday (12 Apr), however, only 66 have links to existing clusters or previous cases.

You can read the full details of the cases in the MOH document here.

The other 167 cases are still pending contact tracing. The breakdown of individuals that make up this number are:

• 16 Singapore Citizens/Permanent Residents (PRs)
• 10 Work Pass or Long Term Pass holders
• 141 Work Permit holders staying in dorms, work sites or other accommodation

In more comforting news, 32 patients have recovered, meaning a total of 560 have been discharged from hospital to date.

Singapore recorded her 8th Covid-19 death on Saturday (11 Apr), a 90-year-old male Singaporean who passed away from complications due to the infection.

Stay united & stay at home in our fight against Covid-19

As we are only on day 6 of Circuit Breaker, we can’t anticipate daily numbers to fall anytime soon.

Like Prime Minister (PM) Lee Hsien Loong said in a Facebook post, New Zealand only saw a decrease after 11 days of lockdown.

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As long as we comply with government orders to stay home as much as we can, there’s hope yet that Singapore will see the same pattern.

Till then, please take care and be responsible citizens. Stay home and stay safe, so we can beat Covid-19 together.

Featured image adapted from Google Maps and Marina Bay Sands.