Coronavirus: Singapore reports two new cases, bringing total to 108
- The patients are a Singaporean woman, 68, who visited Indonesia last month and a Filipino domestic worker, 34, whose employer had the virus
- Also on Monday, Singapore’s foreign minister lauded efforts to fight the outbreak, saying it showed the Lion City’s spirit ‘at its best’
The new patients are a 68-year-old Singaporean woman who is linked to a previous case and visited Indonesia last month, and a 34-year-old Filipino woman who is a domestic worker and is thought to have contracted the virus from her employer, the city state’s ministry of health said in a statement.
Singapore’s foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan on Monday said that the coronavirus outbreak has displayed the Singapore spirit “at its best”, lauding the efforts by pilots, nurses, and consular officers who mounted two flights to the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, to evacuate 174 citizens.
“They accepted the risk and they went beyond the call of duty to bring fellow Singaporeans home,” said Balakrishnan, who was speaking at the foreign affairs ministry’s committee of supply debate, where members of parliament raised questions on multilateral efforts to deal with the virus.