SINGAPORE - A second Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) (Junior) pupil was among the community cases announced on Friday (May 21), making him the first case of school-based Covid-19 transmission in Singapore.
Also among the community cases announced on Friday by the Ministry of Health (MOH) were a one-year-old toddler and an 11-year-old pupil.
In a statement early on Saturday, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said the cases at ACS (Junior) were a clear reminder to all of us and our stakeholders, especially our parents, that we need to work together to keep our schools safe .
MOE urged all parents to comply with its screening policy to keep children at home and inform their school immediately if any household members develop acute respiratory infections, or have reason to believe they might have been infected with Covid-19.
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Yesterday, MOH designated four new clusters with three cases each.
The first one involved the ITE student, whose infection has been linked to that of a Singaporean man, 53, who works as a personal chauffeur. He was confirmed to have the infection on May 14.
The third person in this cluster is a 36-year-old foreign domestic worker who tested positive on May 16.
The second new cluster includes the two-year-old boy whose infection has been linked to that of a 35-year-old sales worker at biopharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis, who was confirmed infected on May 15. The third person in this cluster is a foreign domestic worker.