May 08, 2021
The number of new cases in the community have increased to 45 cases in the past week.
ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
A 72-year-old Singaporean retiree who had been sent to Raffles Hospital for a heart condition on Wednesday (May 5) was among four new community cases on Friday (May 7).
The man tested positive for Covid-19 the next day even though he was asymptomatic, and his serology test also came back positive — indicating he could be shedding minute fragments of the virus RNA from a past infection which are no longer transmissible and infective to others, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).