SINGAPORE - Changi General Hospital (CGH) and Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) have stepped up their defences and put out messages to assure the public after one staff member at each hospital tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday (May 10).
Both cases were announced by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Tuesday night.
The first staff member, case 63,073, is a 42-year-old Malaysian man who works as an operating theatre technician at NTFGH.
He returned to Singapore on Jan 10 after a trip to Malaysia, and served his stay-home notice until Jan 24, testing negative on Jan 23.
On April 14, he visited NTFGH's staff clinic immediately after developing flu-like symptoms, said the hospital. However, he tested negative again and was given three days of medical leave to rest.