Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates
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zac's mum\" post_id=\"2024920\" time=\"1621657156\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2024920 time=1621657156 user_id=53606]
Good time to teach kids to eat neatly and clear up! I think you can probably request a broom or a vacuum cleaner from the staff?
Ya I don’t think there’s any room cleaning at all. Probably u can only get fresh towels from housekeeping dept that’s all.
That’s why last time got some quarantine hotels had cockroach problem. Imagine some people eat potato chips & drop the crumbs on the bed, carpet & left there for 14 days. Sure got pests come and eat...[/quote]
One good thing about SHN (to me) would be that food is provided - no need to shop, cook, clear up! -
List of stay home sites (if you dont know them yet and was out of the loop)!
https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/nf7tsw/list_of_stay_home_sites_if_you_dont_know_them_yet/ -
I am curious to know if B1617.2 is in the community other than the changi airport clusters and if yes, how did they get them? Not sure if this is reported in the press.
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Now a mall can be closed; wonder what else to be closed soon.
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starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"2024990\" time=\"1621740257\" user_id=\"14025:
these mall closed
Now a mall can be closed; wonder what else to be closed soon.
https://mothership.sg/2021/05/jem-westgate-closed-may-23/
10 covid cases, in Hougang HDB block
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/10-covid-19-cases-identified-at-hougang-hdb-block-including-1-new-case-detected
All residents at this pasir ris block take swab tests
https://mothership.sg/2021/05/pasir-ris-blk-559-swab-test/ -
Imp75\" post_id=\"2024988\" time=\"1621731774\" user_id=\"2358:
I am curious to know if B1617.2 is in the community other than the changi airport clusters and if yes, how did they get them? Not sure if this is reported in the press.
Once spread into local community, very hard to control !
It is so important to guard our borders, VERY TIGHTLY !
Consequences ?
All front-lined staff,
all obedient Singaporeans and PRs who \"guai guai\" wear masks faithfully to protect ourselves wherever we go, and protect our families & practise social distancing :
All are affected !
Be mentally prepared that
there could be CB (2)
or
HBL extended, even when Term 3 July school Term start.
So many businesses, taxi drivers, etc are suffering !!! -
Imp75\" post_id=\"2024988\" time=\"1621731774\" user_id=\"2358:
In recent weeks, the prevalent strain for many of our community cases is B1617.2 which originated from India.
I am curious to know if B1617.2 is in the community other than the changi airport clusters and if yes, how did they get them? Not sure if this is reported in the press.
Phylogenetic testing has shown this B1617.2 variant to be associated with several clusters in Singapore.
The investigations showed that the Airport defences were breached after one airport worker helped a family from South Asia on 29th April. The said family was subsequently tested positive for B1617 during their quarantine and the local airport worker was identified as the likely origin of the Changi Airport cluster.
But hor, the TTSH nurse was confirmed to have contracted the B1617.2 strain on 27th April (she may or may not be the index patient of TTSH cluster), so the South Asian strain could have already been in our community way before 29th April ?!
Not forgetting the ICA staff who reported sick on 26th April, thus, before 29th April, our community already has the South Asian variant spreading silently. -
Imp75\" post_id=\"2024988\" time=\"1621731774\" user_id=\"2358:On p 513, I mentioned this fella:
Now it turns out this Indian national had B1617.1, based on MOH's 3 May https://www.moh.gov.sg/docs/librariesprovider5/default-document-library/annex-a65c38244a9e142828ce500c88a5a5503.pdf.zeit\" post_id=\"2021803\" time=\"1619689653\" user_id=\"171271:[quote=.zeit post_id=2021803 time=1619689653 user_id=171271]I'm also baffled that the MOH has been releasing visitors prematurely.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-cluster-reinfected-case-india-recovered-travellers-14659896. He tested positive for COVID-19 in an on-arrival swab test and was taken to a hospital. He was discharged four days later on Apr 6, without being required to further isolate, as he was deemed to be no longer infectious, said MOH.
When did he come into our community and become the sole local case on 20 April?
\"As part of epidemiological investigations into https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/1-new-case-of-locally-transmitted-covid-19-infection_20AprUpdate, MOH tested all her close contacts, including Case 61536, a 43 year-old Indian national who is a Work Pass holder.
Case 61536 is Case 62045’s brother-in-law, and had been identified as a household contact of Cases 62045 and 62143. He arrived from India on 2 April, and was asymptomatic. His on-arrival swab was positive for COVID-19 infection and he was conveyed to a hospital. He was subsequently assessed to be a recovered case based on his high Ct value which indicated a low viral load, positive serology test result on 4 April, as well as negative pre-departure test taken on 31 March. He was discharged from the hospital on 6 April, without the need for further isolation as he was deemed to have been shedding minute fragments of the virus RNA, which were no longer transmissible and infective to others.
On 17 April, as he had been identified as a close contact of Case 62045, he was tested for COVID-19 and his test result came back positive. His serology test result is also positive. The Ct value of his polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test taken on 17 April was lower than his test done on 2 April, indicating a higher viral load this time. His antibody titres are also currently very high, suggesting that he was exposed to a new infection which boosted his antibody levels. MOH, in consultation with an expert panel which comprises infectious diseases and microbiology experts, has assessed that he was likely to have been re-infected with COVID-19 recently. Our epidemiological investigations indicate that Case 61536 was probably re-infected when he was in India, and had been infectious when he returned to Singapore. He then passed the infection to Cases 62045 and 62143.\"
His household contact, SIL, Case 62045 is an accountant. His BIL, Case 62143, owns 2 restaurants.
Anyway, you can trace back the dates on which they started exhibiting symptoms and how they interacted with their office colleagues and customers at the 2 restaurants unsuspectingly in early April.
OK, those were B1617.1 cases, not B1617.2. Nonetheless, both are equally bad.
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As for the Changi Airport cluster, you must have read that the source had come from a South Asian family and the T3 ground staff attending to those visitors got B1617.2 from them.
The date was, interestingly, 29 April. Hmmm, so you know it came in only after the ban was introduced wef 22 April 2359h. So, it's like telling us, 不关我的事哦。
As mentioned by lee_yl, there was another https://www.ica.gov.sg/news-and-publications/media-releases/media-release/ica-statement-on-confirmed-covid-19-case-of-an-ica-officer (albeit working at next door T1, connected by Skytrain) who got the symptoms much earlier than this staff.
This chap who got the B1617.2 variant, started showing symptoms way before 29 April.
Another possible 破口 that caused B1617.2 to escape into the community could be https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/16-new-cases-of-locally-transmitted-covid-19-infection30aprfullprwho had worked at a CCF in Tuas.
\"Case 62553 is a 39 year-old female Vietnam national who works as a cleaner employed by Octo Jet Building Maintenance Services Pte Ltd, and deployed at a community care facility at Tuas South. At work, she dons full personal protection equipment (PPE), including N95 mask, face shield, gown and gloves. She also periodically helps out at a food stall at The Summit located at the National University of Singapore’s Bukit Timah campus.“
There's too many to contact trace now. But they could have gotten it from the varsity canteen, the quarantined/isolated patients at the CCF, the MRT...And you have to check which Terminal that Indian national Case 61536 had arrived at, and SHN hotel he was quarantined at, and later, where he went to after being prematurely released by the authorities . Also, who was rostered to clean that Terminal he passed through, that CCF or hotel he stayed in for 4 days, and so on?
Like phtthp has said, it's everywhere now. Too late! Just wear your medical mask and sanitize your hands regularly! -
Previously when we were having zero community cases but high trending imported cases, I have expressed concern of imported cases spreading to the community. Personally I think we have tightened the arrival measures a bit too late. However, better late than never and we should see community cases going down in the next week or so. In my view, in the early stage of the pandemic, strict measure such as CB was warranted because we don’t know a lot about the virus. At that time, fatality rate was also higher simply because the healthcare systems were overwhelmed. It seems that worldwide now we are coping with the virus better, with the help of vaccination, mask wearing, social distancing and attention to personal hygiene. A lot of cases are also asymptomatic and or without serious symptoms that requires long hospital/ICU stay. As a result, except a few countries where their healthcare system still unable to cope, we are seeing a big drop of fatality rate in the rest of the world.
Against the above backdrop, coupled with the detrimental long term effect that the various restrictions are severely impacting our economy, maybe it is time for us to accept that we can’t eradicate the virus completely and learn how to live with it. If the effects of contracting covid19 are asymptomatic, or mild symptoms like sore throat, slight fever, cold etc that don’t require hospitalisation, then we should regard it just like how we regard flu and other minor ailments that we have been experiencing day to day anyway. I am fearful that we are starting to ‘loosing the forest for the tree’. EU including UK as well as US are opening up now. China, Australia and New Zealand have the resources to keep their border close for foreseeable future. How about Singapore? Changi Airport as a hub is dying, SIA is dying, our infrastructure and home building are being delayed as well as many other economic activities. Conversely, Dubai, another air hub and our competitor, is thriving with its airline flying to many places. Long covid, at least with regard to long covid heart, has been dispelled as myth. We just need to know whether covid has other long term negative effects on recovered patients. I hope the answer is no and we really need to open up our economy sooner rather than later. -
Today (May 23)
Total Community Cases = 22
Unlinked Community Cases = 3
On a downward trend. :rahrah:
Stay safe everyone!
3-Day Moving Average of Total Community Cases and Unlinked Community Cases
Three-day moving average of the total number of community cases from May 16 to 21 is between 26 and 30.3. The three-day moving average for unlinked community cases during the same period is between six and 12.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/3-day-moving-average-number-covid-19-cases-stable-past-week-situation-not-bad-some-fear
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