The country is experiencing its worst spate of Covid-19 community infections in close to a year, in a painful reminder of how the virus situation can flare up without warning.
But if contact tracing, testing and quarantine protocols are as effective as before, and people do not let their guard down, the current situation could come under control within the next week or so, experts said.
The Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) cluster, with 27 people infected, is the nation’s first hospital cluster and comprises staff and patients. One patient, an 88-year-old woman, has died.
The recent cases show that nobody can relax, not even for a moment, stressed Prof Teo Yik Ying, dean of the National University of Singapore’s Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.
Monday, 26 Apr 2021 07:45 AM MYT
A member of the team behind the study taking blood pressure reading from a participant. NUHS pic via TODAY
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SINGAPORE, April 26 A team of clinician-scientists from the National University Health System (NUHS) has found that oral hydroxychloroquine and povidone-iodine throat spray are effective in reducing the spread of Covid-19 in high-transmission settings such as dormitories, cruise ships and prisons.
Their findings, which were presented to the media on Friday (April 23), were based on a study of more than 3,000 migrant workers living in Tuas South Dormitory during the height of the Covid-19 outbreak in dormitories in May last year.
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