SINGAPORE, 30 Dec (CNA)- Singapore reported 311 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Thursday (Dec 30), including 114 imported infections.

There was also one fatality, taking the country's death toll from coronavirus complications to 827.

Among the new cases reported on Thursday, 197 were locally transmitted, comprising 193 in the community and four in migrant worker's dormitories.

Separately, MOH's website also showed that 103 new Omicron variant infections were confirmed on Thursday, comprising 70 imported cases and 33 local cases.

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

The growth rate has remained below 1 since Nov 13. A figure below 1 means that the number of new weekly COVID-19 cases is falling.

As of Thursday, Singapore has recorded 279,061 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.