COVID-19: 13 of today's 15 community cases live together with an earlier confirmed case!
SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 517 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Thursday (Jun 4), including 15 community cases that are all asymptomatic.
Two of these cases are Singaporeans or permanent residents while 13 are work pass holders.
"All 15 cases were close contacts of earlier confirmed cases, and have already been placed on quarantine. They are all asymptomatic, but we had swabbed them to confirm and verify their status," said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
The new infections take the total number of cases reported in Singapore to 36,922.
The majority of the cases reported on Thursday are work permit holders residing in foreign worker dormitories, MOH said.
Further details will be announced later in the day, it added.
READ: Singapore’s circuit breaker and beyond: Timeline of the COVID-19 reality
Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said in Parliament on Thursday that Singapore faces a “real risk” of a resurgence in the number of COVID-19 cases or clusters if it resumes too many activities too quickly.
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NE 06/06/2020
clearly show the fw in non dormitories in otuer words community is going to be the super spreader
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