by People seen in the financial business district of Raffles Place on 11 January. (PHOTO: Getty Images)
SINGAPORE The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed the detection of nine new cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore as of noon on Monday (15 February), taking the country’s total case count to 59,809.
All the new cases are imported and were placed on Stay-Home Notice upon their arrival in Singapore. There are no new cases of locally transmitted infections.
In its nightly update on Sunday, MOH said that one of the 14 imported cases detected earlier that day had tested negative for COVID-19 upon arriving in Singapore on 10 February. He was on a controlled itinerary during his stay here and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19 on 12 February during routine testing conducted for such travellers.
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