Coronavirus: 3 more cases in Singapore, 6 more infected on Diamond Princess cruise ship

Singapore’s health ministry also confirmed six patients are now in critical condition in intensive care, increased from four

None of the three new cases travelled to China so contact tracing is underway as authorities seek to establish link to clusters of local transmission

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Singapore’s three new cases take the total infections to 43. Photo: EPA

Published: 10:42pm, 9 Feb 2020Updated: 3:04pm, 25 Feb 2020

Singapore on Sunday confirmed six patients diagnosed with the novel coronavirus are in intensive care, increased from four on Saturday. The health ministry also confirmed three new cases of the virus, taking the city state’s overall number of infections to 43.

The health ministry said the three new cases did not travel to China recently so contract tracing was underway to establish potential links to known clusters of local transmission in Singapore.

“Of the 22 locally transmitted cases, epidemiological investigations and contact tracing have uncovered links between 15 of the cases with the three currently known clusters,” the health ministry said in a statement.

“Contact tracing is underway for the other seven locally transmitted cases, including those confirmed today, to establish if they are linked to previous cases or persons with travel history to mainland China.”

The three new cases are a 71-year-old Singaporean man, a 39-year-old Bangladeshi man who is a Singapore work pass holder and a 54-year-old Singaporean man who travelled to Malaysia before reporting symptoms and seeking treatment. All three men were warded in isolation, the health ministry said on Sunday night.