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19 new cases in Changi Airport COVID-19 cluster, including 3 cleaners and a supervisor
A passenger checks in at the departure hall at Changi Airport in Singapore on Jan 14, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Roslan Rahman)
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SINGAPORE: The cluster of COVID-19 infections at Changi Airport has grown to 46 cases, after 19 new cases were added to the list on Thursday (May 13).
The new cases include three cleaners and a cleaning supervisor, a housewife who visited Terminal 3 multiple times and a GoJek driver.
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Friday, 14 May 2021 07:11 AM MYT
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SINGAPORE, May 14 Four more cleaners at Changi Airport Terminal 3, aged between 33 and 80, were among 34 new Covid-19 cases reported yesterday (May 13), the Ministry of Health said in its update on the coronavirus situation here.
They are colleagues of an 88-year-old cleaner who worked at the terminal and was first discovered to have Covid-19 on May 5.
Three of the four have also tested positive preliminarily for the B1617 variant from India. They were a 77-year-old Singaporean woman and two Malaysian men aged 33 and 49. The fourth is an 80-year-old Singaporean woman whose serology test result for past infection is pending.