SINGAPORE, 27 Jan (CNA)- Singapore reported 5,469 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Thursday (Jan 27), comprising 5,090 local and 379 imported infections.

There were no fatalities, according to the latest infection statistics on the Ministry of Health's (MOH) website. The death toll from coronavirus complications remains at 850.

Under MOH's new approach of presenting infection numbers, the daily case count includes the number of Protocol 2 cases - those who are well or assessed to have a mild condition.

Among the cases reported on Thursday, 3,571 are Protocol 2 infections, comprising 3,553 imported cases and 18 local ones.

Another 1,898 cases were confirmed via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests - 361 of them imported and 1,537 local infections.

As of Thursday, Singapore has recorded 333,071 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. The figure is backdated to Jan 6 when general practitioners started to order Protocol 2.