COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Singapore |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Sentosa |
Arrival date | 23 January 2020 (4 years, 3 months, 3 weeks and 6 days) |
Confirmed cases | 58,285[1] |
Active cases | 76 |
Recovered | 58,168[1] |
Deaths | 29[1] |
Fatality rate | 0.05% |
Government website | |
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The first case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore was confirmed on 23 January 2020.
By late-March and April, COVID-19 areas were detected at multiple areas for foreign workers, which soon caused a large number of new cases in the country. Singapore currently has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia, having overtaken Indonesia on 19 April 2020.[2]
To fight against COVID-19, a multi-ministerial committee was formed on 22 January 2020 with Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong and Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong as the co-chairs and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat as advisors.[3][4]
Singapore also spent US$500,000 to support World Health Organization (WHO) efforts against COVID-19.[5]
In response to the growing number of new cases, Singapore announced on 3 April 2020 a strict number of measures called a "circuit breaker" from 7 April to 4 May 2020. The circuit breaker was extended to 1 June on 21 April 2020.
National authorities began reporting on suspected cases on 4 January 2020,[6] however the first confirmed case of infection was reported on 23 January. The person was a tourist from Wuhan.[7] Until 30 January 2020, there were a total to 13 confirmed cases, all of whom were visitors to Singapore from China.[8][9]
The first case involving a Singaporean was confirmed on 31 January 2020 after returning from Wuhan.[10]