The Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday named Jurong Point’s FairPrice outlet and Shokutsu Ten Japanese Food Street as public places visited by people with Covid-19 for more than 30 minutes when they were infectious.

It is providing a list of such places for the first time, including the specific times the infectious patients were there.

The ministry said people who were at these locations during those periods should monitor their health closely for two weeks from the date of their visit and see a doctor promptly if they develop symptoms.

The list states that a confirmed case visited the FairPrice outlet last Wednesday from 4.30pm to 6pm.

Last Thursday, a confirmed case also visited the Shokutsu Ten Japanese Food Street @ Jurong Point from 5.30pm to 6.30pm.

The locations will be removed if no new cases linked to these places emerge within two weeks, which is the length of one incubation period.

More locations may be added on a day-to-day basis when they have been confirmed to have been visited by active community cases.

There were 344 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore as of noon yesterday, with the lower number of cases partly due to fewer tests being conducted.

The new cases comprise 338 migrant workers staying in dormitories, two work permit holders, one permanent resident and three Singaporeans. This brings Singapore’s total count to 31,960.

This means there were six new community cases yesterday, up from four such cases reported on Sunday.

Three of yesterday’s community cases were picked up during the screening of pre-school staff. One of them was a 25-year-old pre-school employee who went to work at Learning Vision @ NUHS in Lower Kent Ridge Road, while the other two had not gone to work recently.

A fourth case is linked to the CDPL Tuas dormitory cluster, a fifth to the Cassia@Penjuru cluster, while the sixth, a 48-year-old man from China, has been linked to a previous contact but not to any cluster.

Update on cases

New cases: 344

Imported: 0

In community: 6 (4 Singaporeans/PRs; 2 work permit holders)

In dormitories: 338

Active cases: 16,199

In hospitals: 607 (8 in ICU)

In community facilities: 15,592

Deaths: 23

Patients with Covid-19 who died from other causes: 9

Total discharged: 15,729

Discharged yesterday: 862

TOTAL CASES: 31,960

The new cases comprise 338 migrant workers staying in dormitories, two work permit holders, one permanent resident and three Singaporeans. This brings Singapore’s total count to 31,960.

There were no new clusters for a second consecutive day.

With 862 more cases discharged yesterday, 49 per cent, or 15,729, of the total Covid-19 patients in Singapore have fully recovered from the disease.

This leaves 16,199 active cases who remain either in hospital or community facilities, of whom eight are in the intensive care unit.

The average number of new daily community cases has risen in recent days, with MOH partly attributing this to active surveillance and screening of nursing home residents and pre-school staff.

This has increased from four two weeks ago to seven in the past week, while the number of unlinked community cases has remained stable at two per day for the last two weeks.

Clement Yong

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