SINGAPORE:Singapore has preliminarily confirmed an additional 15 new cases of COVID-19 infection in the past 24 hours, including two in the community.

In a brief data released here today, the republic's Ministry of Health (MOH) said both the community cases involved work pass holders.

Meanwhile, the ministry said there were six imported cases who had all been placed on Stay-Home Notice upon arrival in Singapore.

With the latest developments, the total number of infections in the republic has reached 57,715.

The ministry said it was still working through the details of the cases and further updates would be issued tonight.

In the full data released late last night, only one from 15 cases reported yesterday was symptomatic, while the rest were asymptomatic and detected from proactive screening and surveillance.

So far, the MOH has classified 1,046 of the reported cases as imported, 2,245 as community cases and 54,409 involving dorm residents.

The ministry said 57,367 cases had fully recovered and discharged from hospitals or community care facilities.

A total of 31 confirmed cases remain hospitalised but none are in the intensive care unit.

Meanwhile, 275 patients who have mild symptoms or clinically well but still tested positive for COVID-19 have been isolated and being cared for at community facilities.

To date, 27 people have died from complications due to COVID-19 in the republic with the first death reported on March 21.

While no new clusters were identified yesterday, a cluster linked to a dormitory at 51 Paya Ubi Industrial Park was closed as there have been no more cases for the past two incubation periods of 28 days.

-- BERNAMA