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SINGAPORE - A possible Covid-19 cluster has surfaced at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, with a nurse infected and likely infections in a doctor and three patients in a general ward.
The Health Ministry said that one of the three new community cases of Covid-19 as at Wednesday (April 28) was a nurse from Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH).
The 46 year-old female Philippine national was deployed at Ward 9D, a general ward.
She developed a cough, sore throat and body aches on Tuesday, and sought medical treatment at TTSH, said MOH.
Her test result came back positive for Covid-19 infection on the same day, and she was warded at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID).
Her serology test result is pending.
She received her first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Jan 26, and the second dose on Feb 18.
The vaccine is effective in preventing symptomatic disease for the vast majority of those vaccinated, but it is possible for vaccinated individuals to get infected, said the ministry in a statement.
TTSH has locked down the affected ward, and tested the patients and staff who had been in the ward.
So far, MOH said it has detected four more cases who have tested preliminarily positive for Covid-19 infection. These include a doctor, and three patients who were being cared for in the same ward.
As a precautionary measure, all staff who treated the infected patients, as well as all visitors, patients and staff working in Ward 9D will be placed under quarantine, it said.
Epidemiological investigations and contact tracing are ongoing.
"As we are conducting further testing for these four cases, they have not been included in today's case count," MOH explained.
The Straits Times understands that one of the patients found to have tested positive for the virus is a 72-year-old woman who had been warded at the hospital since April 20.
She had been admitted to a C class ward for rheumatoid arthritis and developed a cough and fever on Sunday.
Her symptoms persisted and she was tested for Covid-19 on Wednesday morning. The results came back positive in the late afternoon.
She has not yet received the Covid-19 vaccine. Her husband, son, daughter and a seven-year-old grandson who had visited her have been quarantined.
Generally, the incubation period for the virus is five to six days, but can be as short as two days or longer than 14 days. Patients are also believed to be infectious for a couple of days before symptoms appear.
It is not known how many other patients, as well as hospital staff, may have been in close contact with the patient.
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When hospitals are not infected we worry.....
Its about time....
take this crisis to upgrade the hospitals to covid safe standard, billions of dollars refurbishing the hospitals...
There's only 5 infected case from the TTSH cluster today. No other community cases. Majullah PAP!
You can safely place your bets that most of them carry the B.1.617 variant
You are sharp. I let you know the confirmation next week.
I suspect that the ICA and TTSH clusters may be linked.
what's the diffTTSH 5 Indian variants, ICA officer also Indian variant... Ah Mak says not linked...
TTSH 5 Indian variants, ICA officer also Indian variant... Ah Mak says not linked...
what's the diff
still neh variant from INDIA
who continuously allow indians into this tiny island?
if elections held now, confirm pap die
too bad gongkias 61% voted for them last yr
fuck pap
Is there any reason why the pinay nurse at TTSH is always held up as the "reference case" for the TTSH cluster?
Is it possible that the TTSH nurse who is also the wife of the ICA officer is the "reference case" instead?
the indian virus comes from indiaThe difference is that they may be trying to "delink" the ICA case cluster from the TTSH cluster. The first reason is to protect the uniformed civil service from blame and the second reason is to prevent the TTSH cluster from being linked to imported cases.
On related news, the official Gov sg Youtube channel has recently changed its banner and logo.
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to be honest, I’d the cases are linked and it boils down to a single point/source can be identified. Different clusters means multiple points of sources, i.e. Sinkies got fucked on the double.
Let’s see if we can tahan the tsunami reverberating across other nations.
it needs to go up before it can come downWould a phase 2 hammer the curve downwards?
the average incubation period seems to be slightly longer now, are those chaps in the MTF keeping up with the emerging trends?
14day is not sufficientLiang PoPo said there’s no trend of increase in incubation period- pray tell, how that B.1.617 variant , as well as other variants from S.America/S.Africa spreading in the community assuming all these imported cases served their 14 day SHN?
簡直就是一個會走路的胃袋。
He's no medical expert.Now like the blind leading the blind into the longkang.If don't know,say don't know,don't anyhow put our health and lives at risk. KNNCCB !Liang PoPo said there’s no trend of increase in incubation period- pray tell, how that B.1.617 variant , as well as other variants from S.America/S.Africa spreading in the community assuming all these imported cases served their 14 day SHN?
簡直就是一個會走路的胃袋。