Covid-19: 383 new cases reported on Tuesday; 1 visited a wet market at Block 963 Jurong West Street 91

[UPDATED, 10.51pm]

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed 383 new coronavirus cases in Singapore today (May 26).

Out of these, there are two community cases while the remaining cases come from Work Permit holders living in dormitories.

Of the two community cases, one is a Singaporean and another a Permanent Resident.

Among the new community cases is a 30-year-old Singaporean female preschool staff who was asymptomatic and was confirmed to have the virus on May 25. The other is a Work Permit holder working at an Institute of Higher Learning.

MOH has also provided a list of public places that confirmed cases in the community had visited for more than 30 minutes.

A confirmed case has visited a wet market at Block 963 Jurong West Street 91 on May 24 from 6am to 8am. On the same day, a confirmed case also visited Jurong Point's FairPrice Xtra from 1pm to 2pm.

As a precautionary measure, people who had been at these locations during the specified timings should monitor their health closely for 14 days from their date of visit and see a doctor if they develop symptoms, said MOH.

The number of new cases in the community has increased, from an average of four cases per day in the week before to an average of seven per day in the past week. This is partly due to the active surveillance and screening of nursing home residents and pre-school staff, which have picked up more cases in the past week.

The number of unlinked cases in the community has remained stable at an average of two per day in the past two weeks.

MOH continues to pick up more cases among Work Permit holders residing in dormitories, including in factory-converted dormitories, because of extensive testing in these premises, as part of their process to verify and test the status of all workers.

99 per cent of the new cases are linked to known clusters, while the rest are pending contact tracing.

Of the 585 cases who are still in the hospital, most are stable and improving. 8 are in critical condition, while 15,291 cases who are clinically well but still test positive for Covid-19 are isolated and cared for at community facilities.

MOH also announced that 706 more cases of Covid-19 infection have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities. In all, 16,444 have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged from hospitals or community care facilities.

This brings the total number of cases to 32,343, with 16,444 patients discharged and 23 deaths.

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