
It also confirmed 1,470 new COVID-19 cases, taking totalinfections to 48,113.
In Singapore, authorities are investigating thepossibility of COVID-19 re-infections among residents in a migrant workers’dormitory, after a dozen of positive cases were found there, the Ministry ofManpower said in a statement on April 21.
Hundreds of migrant workers are put under quarantine at governmentfacilities after one worker was detected with COVID-19 on April 20 duringroutine testing. The worker had received a second vaccination dose and hisroommate also test positive.
To date, 10 workers who previously showed a positiveserology test result were found to be COVID-19 positive. Serology testsindicate past infection.
Singapore has documented over 60,880 COVID-19 cases,including 30 deaths, since the pandemic started. A majority of the cases werediscovered in dormitories that house a large number of low-income foreignworkers, triggering lockdowns of the facilities last year./.