UPDATED WITH DETAILS: Of the 623 new cases, 558 are foreign workers living in dormitories.
The four clusters are Tuas South Dormitory at 1 Tuas South Street 12, Avery Lodge Dormitory at 2D Jalan Papan, Jurong Penjuru Dormitory at 58 Penjuru Place and 4 Sungei Kadut Street 2.
“The circuit breaker measures appear to have helped, but we still have to monitor carefully the numbers over the next few days,” it added Most of the 2,113 hospitalised cases are stable or improving, while 22 are in critical condition in the intensive care unit, down from 23 on Thursday. At least 29 clusters linked to foreign worker dormitories have been identified thus far, including the largest cluster of 1,123 cases linked to S11 Dormitory@Punggol.Those linked to it account for almost 40 per cent of the over 2,800 cases linked to such dorms and construction sites.In the MOH’s latest daily situation report, 6,700 of 65,800 issued stay-home notices remain active.
People who flout their five-day medical leave or stay-home notices are also subjected to similar penalties. Stadiums have also been closed, while parents are not allowed to drop off their children with grandparents on a daily basis.
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