COVID-19: Female Student From M'sia Among New Symptomatic Imported Cases In S'pore

SINGAPORE, Jan 20 (Bernama) -- The Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) Tuesday confirmed that one of the five symptomatic imported cases reported today is a 28-year-old female student from Malaysia. Labelled as Case 59422, the Student’s Pass holder arrived from her home country, said the ministry in its full data released here. As at noon Tuesday, Singapore recorded 26 new imported cases of which 21 are asymptomatic, while five were symptomatic. The republic also reported four new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 infections with two asymptomatic and two symptomatic. In all, 30 new cases were reported here Tuesday, thus, bringing the total number of infections to 59,157. A new cluster was also formed Tuesday linked to Case 59343, a 33-year-old male Chinese national who works at Golden Bridge Foods Manufacturing Pte Ltd. The new cluster takes the total clusters here to five. -- BERNAMA