By Massita Ahmad
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SINGAPORE, Sept 3\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) — Singapore\u00a0preliminarily confirmed 48\u00a0new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total number of infections in the republic to 56,908.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBased on our investigations so far, there are two cases in the community, of whom one is a Singapore permanent resident and one is a work pass holder,\u201d the republic\u2019s Ministry of Health (MOH) said in its brief data released here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ministry said there were five imported cases and all had been placed on Stay-Home Notice upon arrival in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the full data released late yesterday, the republic had classified 913 of the reported cases as imported, 2,220 as community cases and 53,727 involving dorm residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ministry said 41 cases have been removed from the count of total confirmed cases as they were verified to be negative for COVID-19 following further investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A total of 55,891 patients have fully recovered from the infection and been discharged from hospitals or community care facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, 75 confirmed cases remain in hospital, but none in the intensive care unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A total of 867 patients who have mild symptoms, or are clinically well but still tested positive for COVID-19, have been isolated and are being cared for at community facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To date, 27 people have died from complications due to COVID-19 in the republic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three new clusters were identified yesterday at Changi Lodge II of Tanah Merah Coast Road; North Coast Lodge of North Coast Avenue; and Toh Guan Dormitory of Toh Guan Road East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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By Massita Ahmad SINGAPORE, Sept 3\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) — Singapore\u00a0preliminarily confirmed 48\u00a0new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total number of infections in the republic to 56,908. \u201cBased on our investigations so far, there are two cases in the community, of whom one is a Singapore permanent resident and one is a work pass holder,\u201d the republic\u2019s Ministry of Health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":82277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90581"}],"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=90581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}