Serious Four Sinkies Helping Covid Serf Victims Get Infected! How Ungrateful!

[JohnTan]

SINGAPORE - A fourth person working at the Singapore Expo community care facility has contracted the coronavirus, as the Ministry of Health (MOH) reported 741 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday (May 7).

The 43-year-old Singapore citizen is a radiographer who had gone to work at Singapore Expo before he was confirmed to have the infection on Thursday. He is now warded at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases.

A spokesman for Woodlands Health Campus, whose staff are among those caring for patients at Singapore Expo, said on Thursday that the earlier three cases there are currently unlinked. Further epidemiological investigations and contact tracing are ongoing.


"Additional measures have been implemented to ensure the continued safety of everyone such as strict segregation of teams to specific work and rest areas. Refresher briefings on good hygiene, social distancing and PPE practices will also be conducted," he told The Straits Times.

"We have also deployed social distancing ambassadors and put up posters to remind everyone to adhere to the safety measures, including at the rest areas. We will be installing clear screen dividers on dining tables as an additional protection."

The total number of cases in Singapore now stands at 20,939, and it is the 14th day in a row where the new daily infections fell below 1,000.

Five Singaporeans and permanent residents are among the new patients. Migrant workers living in dormitories continue to form the bulk of the remaining cases.


Two quarantine order officers who served orders at various dormitories are among the new cases as well.

Six new clusters were identified on Thursday. One of them is the industrial area of 4 Sungei Kadut Avenue, which is linked to 42 earlier confirmed cases. Another, at 5 Tech Park Crescent, is linked to 38 cases while a factory site at Sixth Lok Yang Road has eight infections.

Meanwhile, 31 newly confirmed cases are linked to 98 Kaki Bukit Industrial Terrace, forming a new cluster there. One newly confirmed case is also found to be linked to 14 previous cases to form a new cluster at 3 Tuas Drive 1. Six new cases are linked to a new cluster at 52 Tuas View Square.

Of the new cases announced on Thursday, 725 are foreign workers living in dormitories.

A total of 18,483 of 323,000 migrant workers living in dormitories have tested positive of Covid-19.

MOH said that it picked up more cases in dormitories because of extensive testing. The ministry added that the number of new cases in the community has decreased to an average of 10 a day in the past week from an average of 14 cases a day two weeks ago.

The number of unlinked cases in the community has also fallen to an average of four a day in the past week from an average of seven cases a day two weeks ago.

As of Thursday, 1,712 patients in Singapore have fully recovered from the virus and been discharged. Twenty people have died of the infection.

Globally, the outbreak, which began in December last year, has infected about 3.82 million people. Some 264,000 have died.

The United States is the worst affected country in the world with more than 1.26 million cases and 74,000 deaths from Covid-19 as of Thursday.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...irus-cases-taking-tally-in-singapore-to-20939

 

[Leongsam]

Is he sick?

 

[mojito]

Told you all the expo fellas recover and reinfected again and again. Giant hots pot.

 

[Leongsam]

Told you all the expo fellas recover and reinfected again and again. Giant hots pot.

Nobody is getting reinfected. The reason why the recovered still test positive is explained in this article :

withinnigeria.com

World Health Organisation reveals why COVID-19 patients who recovered from the disease tested positive again
Adejayan Gbenga Gsong

3 minutes



The real reasons COVID-19 patients who recovered from the disease test positive again have been revealed by World Health Organisation (WHO).

According to the health organization, people who tested positive for the second time after recovering are not getting reinfected but are still expelling dead lung cells rather than getting a new infection.

This comes after South Korean health authorities raised fresh coronavirus concerns after reporting more than 300 cases of recovered patients who later tested positive again.

‘We are aware that some patients test positive after they clinically recover,’ a WHO spokesperson told AFP, without making specific reference to the South Korean cases.

‘From what we currently know – and this is based on very recent data – it seems they these patients are expelling left over materials from their lungs, as part of the recovery phase.’

An expert in virology told MailOnline that once the virus is inactivated by the immune system and forms a complex bond with an antibody, it stops being infectious but can still be detected by a swab test.

WHO spokesperson also admitted that it was still not clear whether the body builds up enough immunity to ward off a new attack by the virus and if it does, how long such immunity lasts.

‘We need systematic collection of samples from recovered patients to better understand how long they shed live virus,’ the WHO spokesperson said.

‘We also need to understand if this means they can pass the virus to other people – having live virus does not necessarily mean it can be passed to another person.’

The organization added that more research is needed on the recovered patients who originally tested negative and then tested positive weeks later.

In a recent interview with BBC, infectious disease epidemiologist Maria Van Kerhove, explained the ‘dead cell’ in the lungs.

‘As the lungs heal, there are parts of the lung that are dead cells that are coming up,’ she said, talking on The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.

‘These are fragments of the lungs that are actually testing positive.

‘It is not infectious virus, it’s not reinfection, it’s not reactivation – it is actually part of the healing process that is being captured again as being positive.

‘Does that mean they have immunity? Does that mean they have a strong protection against reinfection? We don’t know the answer to that yet.’