SINGAPORE – Singapore reported 334 new Covd-19 cases on Tuesday (April 14), bringing the total number of cases to 3,252 since the start of the outbreak.
Of the new cases, 198 are linked to known clusters, 22 are linked to other local cases, and 114 are as yet unlinked.
Singapore’s COVID-19 cases exceed 3,000 with 334 new infections; situation remains ‘critical’
None was imported, said the Health Ministry’s director of medical services, Associate Professor Kenneth Mak, at a press conference on Tuesday (April 14).
Commenting on the unlinked cases, Prof Mak said they did not necessarily mean that there is an unknown source of transmission and, as a result, community spread.
Some of the numbers are from active testing done in different settings – not just in larger purpose-built dormitories, but also other smaller ones, and it takes time to compile and match the figures, he said.
“So, in fact, out of the proportion that are as yet unlinked, you will find that over the next few days that number whittles down progressively as we link them to existing clusters,” he added.
Giving an update on the work of an inter-agency task force a week after it was set up to support foreign workers, the Manpower Ministry Permanent Secretary Aubeck Kam said the teams deployed to all 43 purpose-built dormitories since last week have stabilised living conditions there.
The Health Ministry also announced one new cluster, a foreign worker dormitory called PPT Lodge 1A at 8 Seletar North Link. Eleven cases are now linked to this cluster.
Singapore’s largest COVID-19 cluster, S11 Dormitory @ Punggol, continues to grow. There are 132 new cases, bringing the total to 718.
More cases have also been linked to other dormitories, construction sites and Mustafa Centre.