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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Ministry of Health Singapore confirmed 21 cases COVID-19 again on Wednesday (23/12). One of them is a case corona virus mutation New since English.
The patient is a 17-year-old Singaporean student who returned from England. Identified with case number 58,504, he has been residing in the United Kingdom during his studies since last August.
The unidentified patient arrived in Singapore on December 6 and was quarantined for two weeks according to protocol.
“Currently, there is no evidence that the B117 virus strain has spread in the community,” said Singapore’s Ministry of Health, cited by Channel News Asia, Thursday (12/24).
Eight of the 21 cases detected last Wednesday were imported cases from Canada, India and the United Kingdom.
The other nine cases are foreign migrant workers who came from India, Indonesia and Myanmar. As of Tuesday (12/22), 21 of the 29 new cases were also foreign domestic workers.
Quotation Times of the strait, The families and close relatives of the students infected with the new mutated corona virus are in quarantine for two weeks. At the end of the quarantine period, they tested negative for Covid-19.
Currently, the Singapore National Health Laboratory is carrying out viral genome sequencing for confirmed Covid-19 cases that recently arrived from Europe.
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