SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): There were 198 new cases of Covid-19 infection in Singapore on Friday (April 10), bringing the total number of infections across the 2,000-mark to 2,108.
In addition, an 86-year-old woman has died from complications due to the infection on Thursday night, the seventh such death in Singapore.
Many of the new infections were reported at foreign worker dormitories, according to figures released by the Ministry of Health . There were 79 cases linked to clusters at foreign worker dormitories and 48 linked to non-dormitory clusters or other cases.Contact tracing is underway to find links to previous known cases or clusters for 71 new cases. No imported cases were reported.
The second new cluster is made up of four confirmed cases in a dormitory at 31 Sungei Kadut Avenue. The dormitory is run by Kakiko Group, a firm which brands itself as a built-environment resource business group. She had not gone to work since she started showing symptoms on April 4 and is now warded in an isolation room at Sengkang General Hospital.
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