(Reuters) – Singapore has registered 741 new coronavirus infections, its health ministry said on Thursday, taking the city-state’s total number of COVID-19 cases to 20,939.

The vast majority of the new cases are migrant workers living in dormitories, the health ministry said in a statement. Five are permanent residents.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D’Silva)

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