They are a seven-year-old Singaporean girl who had no symptoms, and an 18-year-old Singaporean boy who started having symptoms on June 28.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - Two of the new community coronavirus patients announced on Friday are family members of a known family cluster at a Tampines Housing Board block where nine people were earlier found to be infected.
It was a precautionary measure after MOH detected nine confirmed cases from two households at the block. Of the 16 new community cases, five were picked up as a result of MOH's proactive surveillance and screening, and eight had already been placed on quarantine earlier.Of the community cases, eight are linked to previous cases or clusters, including the two patients linked to the Tampines HDB block.
Another patient was swabbed as part of MOH's efforts to screen individuals working in front-line Covid-19 operations. In total, 191 new coronavirus cases were confirmed as of noon on Friday, taking Singapore's total to 45,613.There is also one imported case, a permanent resident, who returned to Singapore from India on July 6. She was placed on a 14-day stay-home notice when she arrived here and was tested while serving her notice.
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