SINGAPORE, May 29 A McDonald’s delivery rider working at the fast-food chain’s Hougang Avenue 8 branch was among four new community cases yesterday (May 28) that have not been traced to any earlier detected infections. The 28-year-old Malaysian rider had not been deployed to other outlets,.
SINGAPORE - Four children and a woman who are family members of an infected cleaning supervisor were among eight new coronavirus cases linked to the Hong Ye Group cluster on Saturday (May 29).
The new cases from the same household are an eight-month-old girl, a one-year-old boy, two girls – aged seven and nine – who are pupils of Boon Lay Garden Primary School and a 32-year-old housewife.
They are family members of a 30-year-old Singaporean man employed by Hong Ye Group as a cleaning supervisor at Changi Business Park. His infection was confirmed on May 23.
The Hong Ye Group cluster now has 17 cases.
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A Government Technology Agency (GovTech) employee and four cleaners were among 14 cases in the community reported by the Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday.
The worker at statutory board GovTech was one of three unlinked cases and was last at work on May 7.
The second was a 67-year-old retiree who developed a cough and runny nose on Tuesday and went to the doctor that day, while a migrant worker working at Harvest @ Woodlands is the third.
The 42-year-old Bangladesh national, who had his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on May 14, is employed by Teng Feng Engineering and works at the dormitory but is not linked to a cluster of five cases there.