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SINGAPORE – Two of the 14 new cases reported by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Saturday (October 24) worked in Terminal 3 of Changi Airport.
These two community cases are unrelated.
One is a security officer in T3, who had left for work prior to admission to the hospital. He also visited the Singapore National Eye Center for treatment of an unrelated medical condition.
The other is an examiner and swab assistant at Raffles Medical in T3, and had gone to work prior to admission to the hospital.
“While both cases function in T3, they had not interacted with each other, and epidemiological investigations so far have not established any link between them,” the Health Ministry said in a statement Saturday night (October 24).
However, as a precautionary measure, all people who work in T3 and who may have contact with travelers will be tested for Covid-19, he added.
As travel volume is expected to increase in the coming months, the Health Ministry said it has been in talks with public agencies to increase scheduled routine tests for front-line personnel working at Changi Airport. More details will be provided later.
Places visited by new Covid-19 patients when they were still infectious include FairPrice Finest at T3 and Jurong Point.
The other case of local transmission resides in a bedroom. It was detected through routine tests listed every two weeks of workers living in dormitories.
Among the 11 imported cases were three Singaporeans, one permanent resident, three work permit holders, two long-term visit pass holders, one short-term visit pass holder and one student pass holder.
They returned from India, the Philippines, Indonesia and France.
All had been placed on stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore and were then screened.
The number of new cases in the community has decreased from four cases in the previous week to three in the past week. But the number of unrelated cases in the community has risen from one in the previous week to three in the last week.
With 12 cases discharged yesterday, 57,829 patients have fully recovered from the disease.
A total of 53 patients remain in the hospital, while 40 recover in community facilities.
Singapore has had 28 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.
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