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Health

Singapore confirms 386 more cases of coronavirus in biggest daily jump

FILE PHOTO: Workers adopt safe distancing measures as they queue up for lunch at Westlite dormitory during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Singapore, April 10, 2020 in this picture obtained from social media. MINISTRY OF MANPOWER SINGAPORE/Handout/via REUTERS

Singapore's health ministry confirmed 386 more cases of coronavirus infection on Monday in the city-state's biggest daily jump, taking its total to 2,918.

The Southeast Asian island nation, which is under partial lockdown to try to curb a recent surge in infections, also reported its ninth death from the disease.

A large number of the new cases are linked to outbreaks in migrant workers' dormitories. Singapore has quarantined thousands of workers in dormitories after they were connected to several cases of the COVID-19 respiratory disease.

To date, a total of 586 people have fully recovered from the infection, the health ministry said.

(Reporting by Aradhana Aravindan in Singapore; editing by David Evans)

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