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SINGAPORE – Two more cases of coronavirus infections have been confirmed in Singapore, bringing the total number to 77, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Monday (Feb 17).
One of the new cases is a one-year-old Singaporean baby boy who was evacuated from Wuhan on a Feb 9 Scoot flight. The baby is the first of 174 Singaporeans and their family members on the flight to test positive for the virus. He is in stable condition.
He is currently warded at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and tested positive for the virus on Sunday.
The other new case is a 35-year-old Singaporean man with no recent travel history to China.
The man is warded at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and tested positive for the virus on Monday.
He was identified as a contact of Case 50, the 62-year-old male DBS Bank employee who was confirmed to have the virus on Feb 12.
Two family members of the DBS employee, a 30-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman, are also linked to this group.
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