It’s Christmas Eve and thankfully, we’re heading into the festive season with COVID-19 under control.

As of 12pm today (24 December 2020), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 13 new cases of COVID-19 infection.

All of them are imported cases.

This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 58,495.

Based on yesterday’s figures, the number of new cases in the community has remained low, with a total of 1 case in the past week who is currently unlinked.

S’pore Confirms First COVID-19 Case with UK New Strain

Yesterday (23 Dec), the Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed the first Covid-19 case carrying the B117 strain in Singapore.

The confirmed case is a 17-year-old female who had been studying in the UK since August.

She returned to Singapore on 6 Dec and served her stay-home notice at a dedicated facility upon arrival.

She developed a fever on 7 Dec and was confirmed to be infected on 8 Dec.

She was included among the 21 imported infections reported yesterday.

All her close contacts had been placed on quarantine, and had tested negative for Covid-19 at the end of their quarantine period.

“As she had been isolated upon arrival in Singapore, we were able to ringfence this case so that there was no further transmission arising from her”, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said.

You can read more about B117 here.

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