Of these, six are airport staff employed at Terminals 1 and 3.
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They are a 27-year-old who works in a retail store at Terminal 3, a 29-year-old who works as an IT support engineer in Terminal 1, two Certis Cisco employees aged 28 and 67, and two Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers aged 51 and 57.
The other seven are contacts of patients in the cluster.
They comprise two cleaners at Kopitiam Square Sengkang, another cleaner at Robinson 77 in the Central Business District, the principal of a language school, a retail staff at Ngee Ann City, an administrative worker in the Ministry of Manpower and a 91-year-old housewife.
Of the community cases, two are currently unlinked.
There were also 12 imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notice on arrival in Singapore, said the ministry.
Of these, seven are returning Singaporeans or permanent residents.
The new cases take Singapore s total to 61,536. More details will be announced on Saturday night.
On Friday, MOH said that five primary school pupils have tested positive for the coronavirus after attending classes run by an infected tuition teacher at Learning Point, an enrichment centre located in Parkway Centre.
They are two boys aged seven and nine who go to St Stephen s School, a nine-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy from Kong Hwa School, and a boy aged nine who goes to St Andrew s Junior School.
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Singapore reports 40 new Covid-19 cases, which are all imported. The country s virus total now stands at 61,006. - The Straits Times/ANN SINGAPORE, April 25 (The Straits Times/ANN): There were 40 new coronavirus cases confirmed as at Sunday noon taking Singapore s total to 61,006.
All of the cases were imported and had been placed on stay-home notice upon arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
Among them were 12 Singaporeans or permanent residents as well as six foreign domestic workers.
There were no community cases and no cases from migrant workers dormitories.
On Saturday, one of the five locally transmitted Covid-19 cases reported was a male Singapore permanent resident, 45, who was looking after his mother at a government quarantine facility.
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