Having once had the highest Covid-19 rate in Southeast Asia, Singapore has all but eradicated the virus after reporting 14 days without any new local cases, and saying it had snuffed out the last cluster of infection at a worker dormitory.

While Singapore has reported zero local cases for two weeks, there has been a trickle of infected people arriving from abroad who have been immediately isolated, authorities say.

Singapore was one of the first countries to report a Covid-19 case outside of China, where the virus first surfaced, on Jan 23. It has recorded more than 58,000 cases, but nearly all them have recovered and its fatality rate is the world’s lowest with just 28 deaths.

Yesterday marked the first time Singapore said it had no live clusters of infection across the island since the start of its outbreak.