SINGAPORE: Singapore on Tuesday announced the first local transmissions of the deadly coronavirus from China.
The Ministry of Health said it had found six additional cases, four of them involving human-to-human transmission in Singapore, bringing the total infections to 24 in the city-state.
"Though four of these cases constitute a local transmission cluster, there is as yet no evidence of widespread sustained community transmission in Singapore," the ministry said in a statement.
Singapore's Changi Airport started screening flights from Wuhan at the beginning of January.