As of 27 February 2021, 12pm, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed and verified that there are no new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 infection. There are 12 imported cases, who had already been placed on Stay-Home Notice (SHN) or isolated upon arrival in Singapore. Amongst the new cases today, 11 are asymptomatic, and were detected from our proactive screening and surveillance, while 1 was symptomatic.
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| Breakdown by | Breakdown by |
| Number of cases | Already in quarantine/ isolation before detection | Detected from surveillance | Symptomatic | Asymptomatic |
Cases in the community | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cases residing in dormitories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Imported cases | 12 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
Total | 12 |
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2 Overall, the number of new cases in the community has increased from 1 case in the week before to 4 cases in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has also increased from 1 case in the week before to 2 cases in the past week. We will continue to closely monitor these numbers, as well as the cases detected through our surveillance programme.
3 Amongst the 67 confirmed cases reported from 21 February to 27 February, 31 cases have tested positive for their serology tests, 21 have tested negative, and 15 serology test results are pending.
Case Detailsa) Cases in the community: 0There are no cases in the community today.
b) Cases residing in dormitories: 0There are no cases residing in dormitories today.
c) Imported cases: 12Amongst the 12 imported cases,
- 2 (Cases 60493 and 60512) are Singaporeans who returned from the UAE and US.
- 2 (Cases 60500 and 60504) are Dependant’s Pass holders who arrived from India and Myanmar.
- 3 (Cases 60496, 60498 and 60502) are Work Pass holders who arrived from Brazil, India and the Netherlands.
- 5 are Work Permit holders who arrived from India, Indonesia and Malaysia, of whom 4 (Cases 60497, 60506, 60509 and 60510) are foreign domestic workers.
They had all already been placed on SHN or isolated upon arrival in Singapore and were tested while serving SHN or during isolation.
4 Please refer to the
Annexes and MOH’s daily Situation Report (
www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/situation-report) for details.
5 Epidemiological investigations are in progress. In the meantime, all the identified close contacts of the cases have been isolated and placed on quarantine, and will be tested at the start and end of their quarantine period so that we can detect asymptomatic cases. We will also conduct serological tests for the close contacts to determine if the cases could have been infected by them.
Update on condition of confirmed cases6 13 more cases of COVID-19 infection have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities. In all, 59,816 have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged from hospitals or community care facilities.
7 There are currently 15 confirmed cases who are still in hospital. Of these, most are stable or improving, and 1 is in critical condition in the intensive care unit. 65 are isolated and cared for at community facilities. These are those who have mild symptoms, or are clinically well but still test positive for COVID-19. 29 have passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection.
8 A 64 year-old male Singaporean has passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection on 26 February 2021. He had been residing in Indonesia from 17 March 2020, and had a past history of hyperlipidaemia. He tested positive for COVID-19 infection on 26 January 2021 while he was in Indonesia, and was hospitalised there on 27 January. He was subsequently medically evacuated to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) for treatment on 29 January, and his test taken in Singapore on 30 January also came back positive for COVID-19. NCID has reached out to his family and is extending assistance to them. As he was already an overseas registered case, he was not included in Singapore’s COVID-19 case count.
MINISTRY OF HEALTH
27 FEBRUARY 2021