Today Record 728 new Covid-19 Cases in Singapore! Total Cases of 4,427 as of Now!
Singapore reports record 728 new COVID-19 cases, mostly from foreign worker dormitories
SINGAPORE: Singapore reported a record 728 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday (Apr 16), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 4,427.
Of the new cases, 81 per cent are linked to previously identified clusters while the rest are pending contact tracing, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the media release.
A total of 654 new cases are from foreign worker dormitories, while 26 new cases are work permit holders residing outside dormitories.
As for local cases in the community, 48 cases were reported on Thursday, and there were no new imported cases.
MOH added that 31 more patients have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities. In all, 683 have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged.
On Thursday, a ninth foreign worker dormitory, Mandai Lodge 1, was declared an isolation area after a new cluster of cases was identified there.
According to MOH’s notice in the Government Gazette, the dormitory at 460 Mandai Road was declared an isolation area to prevent “the spread or possible outbreak” of COVID-19.
ACTION TAKEN AGAINST THOSE WHO VIOLATE COVID-19 MEASURES
A man who breached his stay-home notice to go out to run errands and eat bak kut teh pleaded guilty on Thursday to exposing others to the risk of infection – the first case of its kind.
The 34-year-old man did not go home immediately when he landed in Singapore from Myanmar and when he did go home, he did not remain there.
Instead, he appeared in public several times over a four-hour period in behaviour labelled “blatantly irresponsible” by the prosecutors.
Singapore coronavirus cases cross 4,000 with new daily high of 728 cases! 
Like in the past two weeks, foreign workers living in dormitories continue to drive this increase, accounting for 654 of new patients.
Of the remaining new cases, 48 are other local community cases while 26 are work permit holders living outside dormitories.
There were five new clusters announced, with some linked to dormitories, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in its daily update on Thursday (April 16).
They include two large purpose-built dormitories, Westlite Mandai, which is linked to 31 cases, and Leo dormitory, which has 21. This means that 19 of the 43 purpose-built dormitories here, together with several factories converted into dormitories, have reported active clusters in recent weeks.
S11 Dormitory @ Punggol, Singapore’s largest cluster, added 181 cases as of Thursday noon, and now has 979 cases – about a fifth of the country’s total.
Another dormitory, Mandai Lodge I, had another 154 new cases. Some 161 workers who live there have now tested positive for the coronavirus.
It said 19 per cent of the new cases are currently unlinked and contact tracing for these cases is being done.
No imported cases were reported for the seventh successive day.
Singapore now has 4,427 Covid-19 cases.