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SINGAPORE – Thirteen new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Singapore, nine of them linked to a dinner at Safra Jurong on Feb 15, the Ministry of Health said on Friday (March 6).
Two others are believed to be imported cases, one linked to a previous case, and the last with no known links yet.
The private dinner function at Joy Garden restaurant is now linked to 17 cases in total. The nine new cases are Singaporeans between the ages of 33 and 70.
Not all were at the dinner.
Of the other confirmed cases, one is a 55-year-old SingTel staff.
Another is a 47-year-old Singaporean, a Singapore Airlines (SIA) steward who had been in South Africa from Feb 14 to 17 and France from Feb 22 to 24.
He is believed to be an imported case, that is he got the virus outside Singapore. He tested positive for Covid-19 on March 5.
The other likely imported case is a 37-year-old Singapore PR who was in Germany from Feb 27 to March 5. She was confirmed to have the infection on March 6.
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