Sheng Siong Supermarket in Tanglin Halt Visited by Covid-19 Patient While Infected, Singapore News & Top Stories



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SINGAPORE – An infectious coronavirus patient visited a Sheng Siong supermarket in Tanglin Halt on Sunday (Sept. 27) between 6.05 p.m. and 6.35 p.m., the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Monday (Oct. 5).

The ministry provides a list of the places that infectious Covid-19 patients visited for at least 30 minutes and the hours they were there so that people who were there at the same time can closely monitor their own health for two weeks starting. of the date of your visit. .

The full list of locations and hours can be found here.

It has been said that close contacts would have already been notified and that there is no need to avoid these places as they would have been cleaned up if necessary.

Meanwhile, a new case was announced in the community on Monday.

The 15-year-old girl, an Indian national, had been identified as a contact for a previously confirmed case who is a member of her household, and was quarantined on Saturday.

She developed symptoms on Sunday and was examined and later taken to a hospital when the test result came back positive the same day.

She is a student at a private school and was in school for the last time last Friday before showing symptoms of infection. The Ministry of Health did not specify the school he attended.

An imported patient was also announced on Monday.

The 50-year-old permanent resident came to Singapore from India and tested positive on Sunday. He showed no symptoms when tested, the Health Ministry said.

He was on a 14-day stay-at-home notice and was tested while in a dedicated facility.

Migrant workers living in dormitories made up the remaining five of seven new coronavirus patients announced on Monday, bringing Singapore’s total to 57,819.

The average number of new daily cases in the community in a week has increased from less than one case two weeks ago to one case in the last week.

However, the number of unrelated cases in the community has remained stable at an average of less than one case per day for the past two weeks.

With 22 cases discharged on Monday, 57,582 patients have fully recovered from the disease.

A total of 42 patients remain in the hospital, none in intensive care, while 153 recover in community facilities.

Singapore has had 27 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.



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