SINGAPORE — Singapore on Saturday (July 24) recorded 127 new locally transmitted cases of Covid-19, 75 of which have been traced to the cluster at the Jurong Fishery Port and another five to karaoke lounges and clubs.

The total number of cases linked to the Jurong Fishery Port cluster is now 740 and the total from the KTV clubs cluster is 232.

In its evening update on the coronavirus situation here, the Ministry of Health (MOH) also said that there were two new clusters of infections, one of which was linked to Samy’s Curry restaurant located in the Dempsey Hill dining enclave. 

This brings the number of active clusters to 26, each with three to 741 cases. 

Two clusters linked to two separate individuals were closed, after there were no more cases linked to them for the past 28 days. 

LATEST COVID-19 CASES 

There were 29 community cases with no sources of infection. 

Of the 127 locally transmitted cases, 69 were linked to previous infections and had already been placed on quarantine. Another 29 linked to previous cases were detected through surveillance testing, MOH said.

Among the cases are six seniors aged above 70 who are not vaccinated or partially vaccinated and are at risk of serious illness.

The 127 locally transmitted cases were among a total of 130 new Covid-19 cases for the day.

The remaining three were imported and had been placed on stay-home notices or isolated on arrival in Singapore. 

Of the three, one case was detected upon arrival in Singapore and the remaining two developed the illness during stay-home notice or in isolation.

Overall, the number of new cases in the community has multiplied more than four times from 238 in the week before to 1,027 in the past week.

The number of cases with no known links in the community has also jumped from 17 in the week before to 120 in the past week.

“The seven-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 129.6 and 17.1 respectively,” MOH said.

The total number of Covid-19 cases in Singapore is now 64,054.

HOSPITALISED PATIENTS

As of Saturday, there are 490 Covid-19 patients who are hospitalised.

Of these, 12 require oxygen support and one patient is in critical condition under intensive care.

“None among these 13 cases are fully vaccinated,” MOH added.

“Nine seniors above 60 years old, who are completely unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, have fallen very ill.”

On Saturday, an 83-year-old Singaporean woman who was not vaccinated died from complications due to Covid-19. In total, 37 people have died from Covid-19 complications here.

MOH stressed that there is continuing evidence that vaccination helps to prevent serious disease when one gets infected.

“Over the last 28 days, 11 local cases required oxygen supplementation, were admitted to intensive care units or died. Six were unvaccinated, five were partially vaccinated and none were fully vaccinated,” it said.

VACCINATIONS

About 7.06 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines had been given to more than 4.2 million people as of Friday, MOH said.

More than 2.9 million people have completed the full vaccination regimen, consisting of 120,313 recovered persons who received at least one dose and more than 2.84 million who received their second dose.

In addition, 81,227 doses of Sinovac vaccines were administered as of Friday, covering 67,373 individuals.