{"id":70780,"date":"2020-04-19T16:22:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T08:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=70780"},"modified":"2020-04-19T16:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T08:25:32","slug":"covid-19-596-new-cases-in-singapore-bringing-tally-to-6588","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=70780","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 : 596 new cases in Singapore, bringing tally to  6,588"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>By Massita Ahmad<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>SINGAPORE, April 19 (NNN-BERNAMA) \u2013 Singapore\u2019s Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 596 new cases of COVID-19 infection, bringing the tally now to 6,588.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry said the vast majority of the cases are Work Permit holders residing in foreign worker dormitories while 25 are Singaporeans\/ Permanent Residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are still working through the details of the cases, and further updates will be shared via the MOH press release that will be issued tonight,\u201d the ministry said in a statement here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As at noon Saturday (April 18), 4,162 of the cases were classified as dorm residents, 284 involved work permit holders not residing in dorms, 977 community cases and another 569 imported cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore has gazetted 12 out of more than 20 affected dorms as isolation areas with most of the infected dorm residents from Bangladesh, India, China and Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Massita Ahmad SINGAPORE, April 19 (NNN-BERNAMA) \u2013 Singapore\u2019s Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 596 new cases of COVID-19 infection, bringing the tally now to 6,588. The ministry said the vast majority of the cases are Work Permit holders residing in foreign worker dormitories while 25 are Singaporeans\/ Permanent Residents. \u201cWe are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":59657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}