MOH confirmed 17 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore on Tues, taking the country’s total case count to 58,946. There are no new cases of locally-transmitted infections for the fourth consecutive day. One of them is an 83-year-old Singaporean man and two are PRs who returned from India and US. Tues’s sole symptomatic case is a 41-year-old female PR who developed symptoms on 1 Jan and arrived from US. Thirteen other cases are work permit holders who arrived from India, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Philippines, of whom 12 are foreign domestic workers. The remaining case is a sea crew holding a special pass who arrived from Japan onboard a vessel. He was tested for COVID-19 upon arrival here and subsequently conveyed to the hospital when his test came back positive. All 17 imported cases were placed on the stay-home notice or isolated upon arrival here and were subsequently tested. “The number of unlinked cases in the community has remained stable at four cases per week in the past two weeks,” it added.... Continue Reading