COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Singapore reports 768 cases, taking total past 21,000
A vendor, wearing a potective facemask, serves a customer at a fruit stall in Singapore. PHOTO: AFP
Singapore reports 768 COVID-19 cases, taking total past 21,000
‘The 2019 Plague” Day 163’
SINGAPORE (CNA) – Singapore reported 768 new COVID-19 cases as of noon yesterday, taking the country’s total to 21,707.
The vast majority of these are work permit holders residing in foreign worker dormitories, said the Ministry of Health (MoH) in its daily update of preliminary figures.
Ten cases are Singaporeans or permanent residents.
On Thursday, MoH announced that a fourth public healthcare professional deployed to the Singapore Expo community care facility had tested positive for COVID-19.
Singapore’s “circuit breaker”, which has seen most businesses shuttered and residents staying home except to buy groceries or exercise alone, is scheduled to end in about three weeks.
Ahead of the June 1 deadline, some stores have begun to reopen.
Megamall Mustafa Centre, which was a COVID-19 cluster, reopened its supermarket on Wednesday, more than a month after it was closed.
All other sections of the mall, which sells a range of products from clothes to shoes and electronics, will remain shut for now.
