Workers at Tuas shipyard, bakery in Ion Orchard among unlinked Covid-19 cases; community cases down to 3

• There were nine Covid-19 cases reported on June 8
• Of these, three were in the community, two of which had no link to past cases
• There were five imported cases and one in a migrant workers dormitory
• The number of cases with no known links in the community has fallen from 24 in the week before to 10 in the past week

SINGAPORE — A woman who works at a Four Leaves bakery, a man who works in a shipping company as well as a dormitory resident were the three new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Tuesday (June 8) that have not been traced to any source of infection.

The woman is a 35-year-old Malaysian and a retail assistant at the bakery in Ion Orchard mall, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said.

She also works at another branch of the bakery at AMK Hub in Ang Mo Kio.

MOH said that the woman developed a fever, cough, sore throat and runny nose on June 5 but did not see a doctor until two days later.

The other case is a 54-year-old permanent resident who works at shipping company NYK Shipmanagement located at Harbourfront.

He was detected on June 7 when he was given both an antigen rapid test and a polymerase chain reaction test before boarding a vessel.

MOH said that the man had tested negative earlier during a routine testing of workers on June 3.

The dormitory resident lives at the Avery Lodge in Jurong. The 31-year-old Bangladeshi man is employed by Isogo Marine Engineering as a plumber and pipe fitter and works at Keppel Shipyard Tuas Yard.

The man was detected on June 7 as part of testing for dormitory residents before they visited Terusan Recreation Centre near their lodgings.

The three unlinked cases above were part of four that were locally transmitted and reported on Tuesday.

The fourth case has been traced to the Mindsville@Napiri housing facility in Hougang for people with intellectual disability.

He is a 56-year-old resident at the home and was detected from the ministry’s proactive testing of residents there.

The cluster now has 33 cases so far.

Another five cases were imported, making up a total of nine cases reported for the day.

This is the first time in more than two months that the daily count has dipped below double digits.

The last time that happened was on March 17, when nine cases were reported.

Overall, the number of new cases in the community has fallen from 125 in the week before to 93 in the past week.

The number of cases with no known links in the community has dropped from 24 in the week before to 10 in the past week.

MOH said that it has been monitoring existing clusters for any further spread.

“As there have been no more cases linked to the (bunker tanker) MT ALLI cluster for the past two incubation periods, the cluster has now been closed,” it said.

IMPORTED CASES

The five new cases were all placed on stay-home notice upon their arrival here, MOH said.

They were:

• Two permanent residents who returned from India

• Two work permit holders who arrived from Indonesia and the Philippines — one of whom is a foreign domestic worker

• One short-term visit pass holder who was already receiving medical care in Singapore and had come from Indonesia for further treatment

UPDATE ON REMAINING CASES

The total number of infections in Singapore is now 62,219.

Of these, 61,702 people have fully recovered and been discharged, including 42 on Tuesday.

There are still 187 patients in hospitals. Of these, most are stable or improving, and two are in critical condition.

Another 296 patients are isolated at community facilities. They have mild symptoms or are clinically well but still tested positive for Covid-19.

Thirty-four people have died from complications due to the disease, including an 86-year-old Singaporean woman whose death was reported on Tuesday.