They were all imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notices on arrival in Singapore said the Ministry of Health (MOH)
There were 26 new coronavirus cases confirmed at noon on Tuesday (March 30), taking Singapore's total to 60,347.
They were all imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notices on arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
All of them were asymptomatic, and were detected from MOH's proactive screening and surveillance.
There were no new cases in the community or workers' dormitories.
The imported infections included seven Singaporeans and three permanent residents who returned from Bangladesh, India, Qatar, Spain and the United Kingdom.
There were three student's pass holders who arrived from Bangladesh and India.
Another two were work pass holders who travelled from India and Nepal.
There were also seven work permit holders who arrived from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, of whom five were foreign domestic workers.
The remaining four patients were short-term visit pass holders.
Two of them travelled from India to visit their family members while two were in Singapore for work projects, said MOH.
It added that the number of new cases in the community had increased from none in the week before, to two cases in the past week.
The number of unlinked cases in the community had also increased from zero to two in the same period.
With seven cases discharged on Tuesday, 60,123 have fully recovered from the disease.
A total of 37 patients remained in hospital, including one in critical condition in the intensive care unit, while 142 were still recuperating in community facilities.
Singapore has had 30 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died of other causes.
Globally, the virus outbreak, which began in December 2019, has infected more than 127 million people. More than 2.78 million people have died.
Bank lending in Singapore rose for the fourth straight month in February on continued growth in housing and construction loans, data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) showed on Wednesday (March 31).
Loans through the domestic banking unit - which captures lending in all currencies, but reflects mainly Singapore-dollar lending - were up 0.5 per cent to $686.73 billion in February, from $683.59 billion in January.
Loans to businesses grew 0.5 per cent month on month to $424.76 billion in February. Loans to the single-largest business segment, building and construction, rose 1.2 per cent to $152.15 billion.
Meanwhile, loans to consumers edged up 0.4 per cent month on month to $261.97 billion in February. Housing loans, which make up three-quarters of consumer lending, ticked up 0.3 per cent to $202.66 billion.
Year on year, total bank lending slipped 0.9 per cent.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it took a person to Sengkang General Hospital.
The police are investigating.
A neighbour living on the same floor, who declined to be named, told The Straits Times that the Indonesian was believed to have been employed by an elderly woman who is usually in a wheelchair.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it took a person to Sengkang General Hospital.
The police are investigating.
A neighbour living on the same floor, who declined to be named, told The Straits Times that the Indonesian was believed to have been employed by an elderly woman who is usually in a wheelchair.