558 of 623 new coronavirus cases in Singapore are foreign workers from dormitories
SINGAPORE - An 11th patient has died from complications due to Covid-19 infection on Friday , said the Ministry of Health .Raffles Hospital has contacted his family and is extending assistance to them, MOH said on Friday.
The latest figures mean that about 1 per cent of the 323,000 living in dormitories have so far been infected. Three of the four clusters are linked to purpose-built dormitories, meaning that more than half of Singapore’s purpose-built dormitories – 22 of 43 – have now reported active clusters. MOH said that it was also concerned that it is increasingly difficult to link the new cases and identify the source of infection.
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