UPDATE: Some 92% of the total 45,423 COVID-19 cases in Singapore have fully recovered.
Of them, 21 are classified as cases in the community, including three Singaporeans and one permanent resident. One other is an imported case, while the remaining 103 are foreign workers living in dormitories.The imported case is a Singapore PR who returned to Singapore from India on 23 June. She had been placed on 14-day Stay-Home Notice upon arrival in Singapore, and had been tested while serving SHN.
Of the 11 unlinked cases, six were detected from proactive testing. Four of them were tested as they work in essential services, even though they are asymptomatic. The other two were swabbed as part of efforts to screen individuals working in frontline COVID-19 operations. The ministry announced on 2 July that it has placed 58 households residing at the block under active phone surveillance and would be facilitating COVID-19 testing for them and their visitors as a precautionary measure, after nine confirmed cases from two households residing there were detected.
Some 92% have fully recoveredWith 322 more patients discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities on Thursday, 41,645 cases – 91.7 per cent of the total tally – have fully recovered from the infection. Apart from 26 patients who have died from COVID-19 complications, 14 others who tested positive for the virus were determined to have died from unrelated causes, including three whose deaths were attributed to a heart attack and another four, including the 48-year-old male Indian national, whose deaths were attributed to coronary heart disease.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Manpower said in a media release that 384 more dormitories have been cleared of COVID-19 with effect from Tuesday.
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