An Academy of Medicine staff attends to a migrant worker at a dormitory in Singapore, after nearly 20,000 workers were quarantined, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 7, 2020. MINDEF Singapore/Handout/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s Health Ministry confirmed 142 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases to 1,623.
Forty of the new cases were linked to foreign worker dormitories, the health ministry said in a statement.
Reporting by Fathin Ungku; Editing by Catherine Evans
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