SINGAPORE, June 28 (The Straits Times/ANN): Infection in the community has increased with a five-year-old boy among 11 new community cases confirmed on Saturday by the Ministry of Health (MOH).
The boy belongs to a family cluster of two other Singaporean patients - a 35-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman. They had already been quarantined and swabbed.
The number of unlinked cases in the community has also increased, from an average of two cases a day in the week before, to an average of three a day in the past week. Among the six work pass and work permit holders, two 37-year-old female patients from Myanmar and Indonesia had been identified as contacts of previously confirmed cases, and had already been quarantined earlier. The remaining four patients from India and Bangladesh were detected as part of the screening of workers in essential services.
The MOH also announced four new clusters, of which three of them are dormitories. The dormitories are at 79 Kaki Bukit Industrial Terrace, 208 Woodlands Industrial Park E5 and 230 Woodlands Industrial Park E5. The last cluster is at The Florence Residences construction site at 713 Hougang Avenue 2.
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