SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Friday (March 6) confirmed 13 more cases of Covid-19 infections in Singapore, with nine coming from the new cluster involving a private dinner function at Safra Jurong.

It is the highest number of cases reported in a day, the previous high being the nine reported on Feb 14.

Apart from the nine from the Safra Jurong cluster, two others are likely to be imported cases, one is linked to a previous case while one other case has no links to reported and known infections.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 130.

When TODAY asked whether Singapore can expect a new wave of locally transmitted cases, Associate Professor Vernon Lee, director of communicable diseases at MOH, said: “In the Safra instance, it is all a cluster, as a result of someone symptomatic who went for the event. So as long as people adhere to these social responsibilities and don’t go around when they are ill then, in fact, we can see that this entire incident would not have happened.”

In a press conference on Friday, MOH said that to date, 82 people have fully recovered from the Covid-19 infection and have been discharged.

Of the 48 cases who are in hospital, most are stable or improving.

Nine people are in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

THE LATEST CASES

Case 118

• Case 118 is a 33-year-old Singaporean woman with no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

• She is warded in an isolation room at the National University Hospital.

• She is a family member of Cases 114 and 115, who are linked to the private dinner function at Safra Jurong on Feb 15.

• Prior to hospital admission, she had mostly stayed at home in the Westwood Avenue area in Jurong West.

Case 119

• Case 119 is a 55-year-old Singaporean man with no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

• He is warded at Alexandra Hospital. Before that, he had mostly stayed at home along Stirling Road.

• He is employed at Singtel but had not gone to work since the onset of symptoms.

Case 120

• Case 120 is a 62-year-old Singaporean woman with no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

• She is warded at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID).

• She is linked to the cluster at Safra Jurong.

Case 121

• Case 121 is a 54-year-old Singaporean woman with no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

• She is warded at the NCID.

• She is linked to the private dinner function at Safra Jurong.

Case 122

• Case 122 is a 64-year-old Singaporean woman with no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

• She is warded at the NCID.

• She is a close contact of Case 117, who is linked to the private dinner function at Safra Jurong.

Case 123

• Case 123 is a 47-year-old Singaporean man who works as a cabin crew with Singapore Airlines. He had been to South Africa from Feb 14 to 17, and was in France from Feb 22 to 24.

• He is warded at the Sengkang General Hospital.

• He is likely to be an imported case.

Case 124

• Case 124 is a 37-year-old female Singapore permanent resident who had been to Germany from Feb 27 to March 5.

• She is warded at NCID.

• She is likely to be an imported cases.

Case 125

• Case 125 is a 65-year-old Singaporean woman with no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

• She is warded at NCID.

• She is a family member of Case 128 and linked to the cluster at Safra Jurong.

Case 126

• Case 126 is a 77-year-old Singaporean man with no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

• He is warded at NCID.

• He had been in the same ward as Case 109 at Singapore General Hospital from Feb 29 to March 1.

• He had been under quarantine since March 4.

Case 127

• Case 127 is a 64-year-old Singaporean woman with no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

• She is a close contact of Case 117 and linked to the cluster at Safra Jurong.

Case 128

• Case 128 is a 70-year-old Singaporean man with no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

• He is warded at NCID.

• He is a family member of Case 125 who is linked to the cluster at Safra Jurong.

Case 129

• Case 129 is a 68-year-old Singaporean woman with no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

• She is warded at the Ng Teng Fong General Hospital.

• She is a family member of Case 130, who is linked to the cluster at Safra Jurong.

Case 130

• Case 130 is a 66-year-old Singaporean man with no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

• He is warded at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital.

• He is linked to the cluster at Safra Jurong.

LINKS BETWEEN PREVIOUS CASES

Further epidemiological investigations and contact tracing have uncovered links between previously announced and new cases. This was made possible with the assistance of the Singapore Police Force.

• Six of the locally transmitted confirmed cases (Cases 31, 33, 38, 83, 90 and 91), as well as Cases 8 and 9, are linked to The Life Church and Missions Singapore. These six cases are linked to another 23 confirmed cases (Cases 48, 49, 51, 53, 54, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73, 74, 78, 80, 81, 84, 88) who are linked to the Grace Assembly of God.

• Nine of the confirmed cases (Cases 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 34 and 40) are linked to Yong Thai Hang, a health products shop off Lavender Street.

• Three of the confirmed cases (Cases 30, 36 and 39) are linked to the business meeting held at Grand Hyatt Singapore from Jan 20 to Jan 22.

• Five of the confirmed cases (Cases 42, 47, 52, 56 and 69) are linked to the Seletar Aerospace Heights construction site.

• Fourteen of the confirmed cases (Cases 93, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108 and 110) are linked to Wizlearn Technologies.

• Seventeen of the confirmed cases (Cases 94, 96, 107, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 125, 127, 128, 129 and 130) are linked to a private dinner function at Safra Jurong on Feb 15.

MOH said that investigations on these clusters are ongoing.