(Reuters) – Singapore has registered 618 new coronavirus infections, its health ministry said on Saturday, taking the city-state’s total number of COVID-19 cases to 12,693.
The vast majority of the new cases are migrant workers living in dormitories, the health ministry said in a statement. Seven are permanent residents.
The island of 5.7 million people now has one of the highest infection rates in Asia, according to official figures.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill)
