SINGAPORE, 05 Jan (CNA)- Singapore reported 805 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Wednesday (Jan 5), including 439 imported infections.

There were two fatalities, and the death toll from coronavirus complications rose by two, taking the country's death toll from coronavirus complications to 834, according to the latest infection statistics on the Ministry of Health's (MOH) website.

Among the new cases reported on Wednesday, 366 were locally transmitted, comprising 353 in the community and 13 in migrant worker's dormitories.

A total of 440 new Omicron infections were confirmed on Wednesday, comprising 302 imported cases and 138 local cases.

The daily COVID-19 cases and new confirmed Omicron cases are presented as two separate sets of data on MOH's website.

As of Wednesday, Singapore has recorded 282,401 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.