S'pore says its Covid-19 cases may be higher than official tallies

CORONAVIRUS | 528 new infections were reported but authorities say the real number could be greater due to a lag in testing.

| Singapore said on Tuesday that the number of migrant workers infected with coronavirus in the republic may be higher than official tallies as symptomatic patients had been isolated in dormitories with mass outbreaks before testing.

"When we report figures...of confirmed and verified infections, the number of foreign workers that are in the dormitories that we are keeping a close eye on with respiratory symptoms may in fact be bigger than the actual number that we report," the health ministry's director of medical services, Kenneth Mak, said at a media briefing.

Singapore said it has been scaling up its testing capacity across the island, including in dormitories, from an average of 2,900 tests a day in early April to more than 8,000.

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