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Singapore coronavirus cases pass 5,000 mark with 623 new patients, mostly foreign workers in dormitories
SJ Dormitory in Woodlands is one of the workers' dormitories linked to new clusters on April 16, 2020.ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN
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SINGAPORE - The Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 623 cases of Covid-19 infection in Singapore as of noon on Friday (April 17), with the majority of the cases being foreign workers living in dormitories.
It said it would issue further updates on Friday night.
This brings Singapore's total number of coronavirus cases to 5,050.
The number of people who have died - 10 - remains unchanged, for now.
It is not clear why the ministry decided to release preliminary figures late Friday afternoon as it often announces them later in the evening.
However, there were messages circulating earlier that Singapore had presumably logged the biggest single-day spike of 1,146 on some online platforms.
This is after the new Covid-19 patient figures for Thursday were leaked nearly 10 hours before MOH announced them just after 11pm on.
Associate Professor Alex Cook, vice-dean of research at the National University of Singapore's Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, said number of cases the country has seen among foreign workers in dormitories in the past two weeks could point to at least 10,000 to 20,000 foreign worker patients as early as the end of April.