Singapore confirms 41 cases of Zika virus

Foreign construction workers make up the bulk of the 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus in Singapore.

An Aedes aegypti mosquito

Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus, local media reports. (AAP)

Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus, local media reports, citing the city-state's health ministry.

The cases include 36 foreign construction workers employed at a site in Aljunied, in the southeast of the island, the Straits Times newspaper and Channel News Asia television reported.

On Saturday, the health ministry confirmed Singapore's first case of a local transmission of the virus, which in Brazil has been linked to microcephaly, a rare birth defect.

That case was also in the Aljunied area.

Authorities have tested 124 people, primarily construction workers.

Seventy-eight have tested negative and five cases are pending, the reports said. In all, 34 patients have fully recovered.


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