The Ministry of Health (MOH) confirms 42 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore today (29 Mar).
According to MOH, 24 are imported cases with travel history to the following regions:
Among the 18 local cases, 8 have links to previous cases while 10 have no known connections yet. Contact tracing is underway for the latter group.
Today’s number brings Singapore’s total to 844 Covid-19 cases so far.
Of the 8 who have connections to previous cases, one of them, Case 810, has links to 2 others from a wedding studio.
The 2, Case 802 who was in yesterday’s (28 Mar) case count and Case 745, were close contacts at The Wedding Brocade at 1 Yishun Industrial Street 1.
Having 3 cases tracing back to the venue now makes it a new cluster, adding on to the 6 other active clusters in Singapore:
For further details on the patients, you can check out MOH’s press release here, and click on the annex.
Thankfully, more have been recovering too, with discharge cases similarly on the rise recently. 14 who left hospital today mark 212 successful recoveries in Singapore thus far.
19 are in critical condition in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Singapore sadly recorded its third fatality to the virus earlier today, a 70-year-old who succumbed after 27 days in the ICU due to health complications.
206 patients who tested positive for Covid-19 but are clinically well are continuing treatment in special care centres at the following places to free up public hospital facilities for the more seriously ill:
We hope that they’re well on the mend, and that all patients will have a smooth recovery.
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