84-year-old female citizen the 12th Covid-19 death in Singapore; 8 new clusters identified
“Khoo Teck Puat Hospital has reached out to her family and is extending assistance to them,” the health ministry said.
SINGAPORE — An 84-year-old Singaporean woman has become the 12th person to die from Covid-19 here, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Wednesday (April 22).
In a media statement, MOH said that the victim — identified as Case 1071 — died on April 21 at night, 19 days after she was confirmed to have the disease.
“Khoo Teck Puat Hospital has reached out to her family and is extending assistance to them,” MOH said.
The ministry also said that it has identified eight new clusters of infections at these addresses: 10 Kranji Link, 32 Tuas View Square, 36 Tuas View Square, 40 Tuas View Square, 61 Senoko Drive, 8 Sungei Kadut Avenue, 18 Sungei Kadut Avenue and Wing Fong Court located at 10 Lorong 14 Geylang.
Earlier in the day, Singapore confirmed 1,016 new cases of Covid-19, the third consecutive day that the country has reported more than 1,000 new cases.
It brings the total number of cases here to 10,141.
Giving a breakdown of the infections, MOH said that there were no new imported cases.
There were 17 new cases in the community, where 15 are Singaporeans or permanent residents and two are work pass holders.
The number of new cases in the community has dropped, from an average of 36 a day in the week before, to an average of 25 a day in the past week.
The number of cases in the community with unknown sources of infection has also gone down, from an average of 21 a day in the week before, to an average of 17 a day in the past week.
Of the cases involving foreign workers, 32 were linked to those who do not stay at dormitories. Another 967 were linked to those residing in dormitories.
MOH said that the main increase on Wednesday “continues to be for work permit holders residing in dormitories, where we are picking up many more cases because of extensive testing”.
“Most of these cases have a mild illness and are being monitored in the community isolation facilities or general ward of our hospitals. None of them is in the intensive care unit,” it said.
UPDATE ON THE CONFIRMED CASES
In all, 896 patients have fully recovered from the Covid-19 and have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities, including the 57 discharged on Wednesday.
Of the 4,234 confirmed cases who are still in hospital, most are in stable condition or improving.
Twenty-five patients are in critical condition under intensive care.
MOH said that 4,999 cases who are clinically well but still test positive for Covid-19 are isolated and cared for at community facilities.
