SINGAPORE - There were 15 new coronavirus cases confirmed on Thursday (Sept 24), taking Singapore’s total to 57,654.

They included five imported cases comprising one Singaporean, one permanent resident, one work pass holder, one dependant’s pass holder and one long-term visit pass holder.

Four of them - including the Singaporean who is a 44-year-old man - returned from India, while the fifth imported case returned from Indonesia.

All of them were placed on stay-home notices upon arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).

There were no new community cases announced on Thursday. The last time there were no community cases was Tuesday.

Migrant workers staying in dormitories made up the remaining 10 new coronavirus patients announced on Thursday.

Among these, five were identified as contacts of previous cases and had already been quarantined to prevent further transmission. They were tested during their quarantine period, the ministry said.

The remaining five cases were detected through surveillance testing, such as rostered routine testing of workers staying in dormitories every fortnight.

No new clusters and no new locations visited by infectious Covid-19 patients were announced on Thursday.

MOH said that the dormitory cluster at 15 Kaki Bukit Crescent has been closed as it has not had new cases linked to it for 28 days, or two incubation periods.

The number of new daily cases in the community in a week has remained stable at an average of fewer than one case per day in the past two weeks.

The number of unlinked cases in the community has also remained stable at an average of fewer than one case a day for the past fortnight.

With 42 cases discharged on Thursday, 57,318 patients have fully recovered from the disease.

A total of 28 patients remain in hospital while 266 are recuperating in community facilities. None is intensive care.

Singapore has had 27 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died of other causes.

On Wednesday, 12 new coronavirus cases were confirmed.

They included one community case, who is a work permit holder, said MOH.

He is a 31-year-old Bangladeshi who was confirmed to be positive on Tuesday.

He was asymptomatic but was identified as a contact of a previously confirmed case and was tested during quarantine.

There were also four imported cases, comprising three permanent residents who returned from India and one work pass holder who returned from Iran.

All the imported cases had been placed on stay-home notice on arrival in Singapore.

Migrant workers staying in dormitories made up the remaining seven new Covid-19 patients announced on Wednesday.

Among them, four were identified as contacts of previous cases and had been quarantined to prevent further transmission.

They were tested during their quarantine period, MOH said.

The remaining three cases were detected through surveillance testing, like the rostered routine testing of workers staying in dormitories that is done every fortnight.

No new clusters and no new locations visited by infectious Covid-19 patients were announced on Wednesday.

There were 29 cases discharged on Wednesday.

Globally, the virus outbreak, which began in December last year, has infected more than 31.7 million people. More than 975,000 people have died.