The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced as of 12pm on 1 Sep that there are 40 new Covid-19 cases.
The majority of cases are from migrant workers currently in quarantine, while there’s also 1 case in the community and 7 imports.
MOH reported 1 community case, a Work Pass hodler.
The average number of cases, as of last night, was at 3 cases a day last week, although unlinked cases have remained at 1 a day.
As frequency of tests increase, this will also have an effect on the number of community cases detected.
There were 7 imported cases reported today.
All of them were put on Stay-Home Notices (SHN) upon arrival in Singapore.
Yesterday, there were also 7 imported Covid-19 cases who’d returned from India and Malaysia. They were tested during their 14-day SHN.
Today (1 Sep), authorities announced that they’ve set up a green lane arrangement with Brunei, and people can start applying for a short-term visit pass.
Both countries said they’ll take all health safety measures, after Singapore declared Brunei safe to travel to.
After a care staff at Lee Ah Moi Old Age home returned to the Philippines tested positive for Covid-19, 90 others were tested for the virus, MOH said last night (31 Aug).
The ones tested included staff and residents.
All of them tested negative, thankfully.
The precautionary measure comes as a separate outbreak in Apr at the Thomson branch claimed 3 lives.
There is a healthy willingness to conduct mass testing now as the economy reopens, including among workers in essential services.
Hopefully, this way we can find cases quickly and isolate them.
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