The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - Malls in Singapore were teeming with pre-pandemic crowd sizes in the final weekend before Christmas as shoppers sought last-minute presents in a festive year-end mood.
This was despite the Government urging caution in the lead-up to phase three of Singapore s reopening on Dec 28, which will allow larger gatherings of up to eight and expanded capacity limits at public places.
The Straits Times spoke to several patrons at shopping centres around the island, who admitted to unease over the lack of safe distancing amid crowds larger than they had expected. It s very busy in the mall, it s scary to see people going out like there s (no pandemic), said Mr Muhammad Faiz, who was at Bugis Junction. You don t know who could be a carrier, and there are so many people around, you could end up being too close to someone and come into contact with (a carrier).
SINGAPORE - Serological tests of eight more hotel employees at Mandarin Orchard Singapore have come back positive, indicating likely past infections of Covid-19, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday afternoon (Dec 21).
This is in addition to the three cases announced on Sunday. Epidemiological investigations of these 11 cases are in progress, said the ministry.
In the meantime, the MOH is testing their identified close contacts as a precautionary measure, and it will also conduct serological tests to determine if these individuals could have been infected by these 11 cases.
The 11 cases were excluded from the Covid-19 daily counts reported by the health ministry, as their polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results are negative for the infection, indicating that these are likely to be past, and not current, infections.
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