SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Wednesday (April 8) announced 142 new cases of Covid-19 in the country, bringing the total number of cases here to 1,623.

It is the highest single-day spike of cases here, the previous being the 120 cases reported on Sunday.

Of the 142 cases reported on Wednesday, 40 cases were linked to local clusters at foreign worker dormitories and 28 were linked to non-dormitory clusters or other cases.

Two were imported cases while 72 infections are currently “pending contact tracing”, MOH said.

Twenty additional cases are linked to the S-11 Dormitory. The largest local cluster of infections now has 118 confirmed cases.

To date, a total of 406 cases have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities, including the 29 discharged on Wednesday.

The MOH said that of the 669 confirmed cases who are still in hospital, most are stable or improving.

Twenty-nine are in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

The MOH said that 542 cases who are clinically well but still test positive for Covid-19 are isolated and cared for at Concord International Hospital, Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Gleneagles Hospital, Mount Alvernia Hospital, Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital and the Community Isolation Facility at D’Resort NTUC.

Six have died from complications due to Covid-19 infection. Another person died on Wednesday while waiting for the result of his swab test, MOH said.

PATIENT FROM THE PUBLIC HEALTHCARE SECTOR

The MOH also identified a patient from the public healthcare sector.

The patient — identified as Case 1466 — is a 31-year-old male Indian national who is a Singapore Work Pass holder, and has no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

He had reported an onset of symptoms on April 5, and subsequent test results confirmed Covid-19 infection on April 7. He is currently warded in an isolation room at NCID.

He is employed as a technician at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital but had not gone to work since the onset of symptoms.

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LINKS BETWEEN PREVIOUS CASES FOUND

Further epidemiological investigations and contact tracing have uncovered links between previously announced and new cases, MOH said.

• Twenty more cases are linked to the cluster at S11 Dormitory @ Punggol (2 Seletar North Link), which now has a total of 118 confirmed cases.

• Four more cases are linked to the cluster at Westlite Toh Guan dormitory (18 Toh Guan Road East), which now has a total of 38 confirmed cases.

• Five more cases are linked to the cluster at Toh Guan Dormitory (19A Toh Guan Road East), which now has a total of 23 confirmed cases (Cases 963, 1079, 1106, 1148, 1150, 1195, 1254, 1273, 1262, 1263, 1271, 1274, 1276, 1347, 1395, 1453, 1469, 1475, 1374, 1434, 1446, 1582 and 1599).

• Eleven more cases are linked to the cluster at Sungei Tengah Lodge (500 Old Choa Chu Kang Road), which now has a total of 29 confirmed cases now (Cases 1054, 1077, 1124, 1267, 1306, 1319, 1342, 1362, 1367, 1388, 1396, 1411, 1430, 1438, 1459, 1474, 1476, 1481, 1482, 1492, 1496, 1498, 1502, 1527, 1586, 1587, 1596, 1602 and 1603).

• Four more cases are linked to the cluster at Tampines Dormitory (2 Tampines Place), which now has a total of 21 cases (Cases 1049, 1140 , 1193, 1226, 1299, 1261, 1313, 1314, 1327, 1373, 1410,1440, 1442, 1454, 1457, 1458, 1479, 1571, 1576, 1581 and 1608).

• One more case is linked to the cluster at Cochrane Lodge I (51 Admiralty Road West), which now has a total of seven cases (Cases 1018, 1144, 1406, 1418, 1419, 1437 and 1339).

• One more case is linked to the cluster at Cochrane Lodge II (49 Admiralty Road West), which now has a total of six cases (Cases 956, 967, 1104, 1240, 1349 and 1394).

• Three more cases are linked to the cluster at Kranji Lodge (12 Kranji Road), which now has a total of six confirmed cases (Cases 880, 1190, 1241, 1506, 1519 and 1520).

• One more case is linked to the cluster at a dormitory at 55 Sungei Kadut Loop, which now has a total of five cases (Cases 868, 972, 974, 1356 and 1510).

• Six more cases are linked to the cluster at a construction site at Project Glory (50 Market Street), which now has a total of 27 confirmed cases (Cases 956, 967, 1019, 1078, 1079, 1104, 1120, 1124, 1149, 1162, 1181, 1191, 1226, 1271, 1273, 1341, 1346, 1349, 1421, 1448, 1449, 1164, 1486, 1514, 1531, 1575 and 1577).

• Five more cases are linked to the cluster at Mustafa Centre (145 Syed Alwi Road), which now has a total of 50 confirmed cases.

• Three more cases are linked to the cluster at Keppel Shipyard (51 Pioneer Sector 1), which now has a total of 12 cases (Cases 878, 898, 907, 1076, 1158, 1172, 1270, 1324, 1336, 1495, 1505 and 1529).

• One more case is linked to the cluster at Wilby Residences (25 Wilby Road), which now has a total of 10 confirmed cases (Cases 439, 678, 793, 818, 848, 864, 873, 980, 1075 and 1415).

The MOH said that contact tracing is underway for unlinked cases to establish any links to previous cases or travel history to affected countries or regions.