Coronavirus: Singapore confirms four new cases, including 6-month-old boy, taking tally to 28

Three of the new cases are linked to a ‘cluster of local transmission’ while the fourth was a Chinese national who arrived from Wuhan last month

Four others from same cluster had been in contact with a group of tourists who visited Singapore from Guangxi province in China, health ministry says

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Packs of surgical masks on a table at a distribution point in Singapore, which now has 28 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. Photo: EPA

Published: 10:48pm, 5 Feb 2020Updated: 3:04pm, 25 Feb 2020

Singapore on Wednesday confirmed four new cases of the novel coronavirus, including a six-month-old boy who is the youngest person in the city state to have been diagnosed with the disease.

In a statement, Singapore’s ministry of health confirmed three of the new cases were linked to a “cluster of local transmission” identified on Tuesday.

The four new cases bring Singapore’s total number of cases to 28. All four of the people diagnosed were being held in isolation.

Two of the new cases are father and son: a 45-year-old male and his six-month-old child, both of whom have no recent travel history to China. The man’s wife, who is the boy’s mother, was previously diagnosed as Singapore’s 19th case.

The other new case is a 40-year-old male with no recent travel history to China. He is the husband of a 32-year-old woman who was on Tuesday diagnosed with the coronavirus as Singapore’s 24th case.

The fourth new case was identified as a 42-year-old Chinese woman who arrived in Singapore on January 21 from Wuhan, the central Chinese city which is the epicentre of the viral outbreak. Her mother was earlier diagnosed as Singapore’s 13th case.

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