Coronavirus: First death in Singapore was from Life Church and Missions sub-cluster

Coronavirus: First death in Singapore was from Life Church and Missions sub-cluster
The Ace Building along Paya Lebar Road, where The Life Church and Missions Singapore is located.
PHOTO: ST FILE

SINGAPORE - The 75 year-old Singaporean woman who became the first patient to die of Covid-19 was linked to the cluster at The Life Church and Missions Singapore.

Known as Case 90, she had no recent travel history to China, a Health Ministry statement on Feb 24 had said.

She had reported onset of symptoms on Feb 9 and sought treatment at a general practitioner's clinic that day, as well as on Feb 17 and Feb 23.

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She was conveyed in an ambulance to the emergency department of Tan Tock Seng Hospital on Feb 23 and immediately isolated.

Subsequent test results confirmed Covid-19 infection that afternoon. She was warded at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and died at 7.52am on Saturday (March 21).

A statement said she had a history of chronic heart disease and hypertension.

Prior to being admitted to hospital, she had kept mostly at her home in Bishan Street 12, a ministry statement had said earlier.

The woman is linked to the second largest virus cluster in Singapore with 33 patients and which comprises two church sub-clusters.

One of them, the Grace Assembly of God church, has 23 patients, including the church's senior pastor.

The Life Church and Missions Singapore, which the 75-year-old woman was linked to, has 10 patients. This church is in Paya Lebar.

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