(Reuters) – Singapore registered 465 new coronavirus infections, its health ministry said on Saturday, taking the city-state’s total to 27,356 cases.

The vast majority of the newly infected people are migrant workers living in dormitories, the health ministry said in a statement. Four are permanent residents.

Singapore also reported one more death, bringing the virus-related death toll in the island nation to 22 .

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Sam Holmes and Alexandra Hudson)

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