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SINGAPORE: Two Singapore Polytechnic (SP) students linked to the JEM/Westgate COVID-19 cluster have tested positive for the coronavirus, the polytechnic said on Monday (May 24).
There are now eight COVID-19 cases among SP students.
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The students - identified as Cases 63664 and 63665 - are family members and household contacts who were last on campus on May 14.
One of the two cases is a second-year student who studies at the School of Chemical & Life Sciences. She had visited Westgate on May 8, May 10 and May 11.
May 08, 2021
The number of new cases in the community have increased to 45 cases in the past week.
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A 72-year-old Singaporean retiree who had been sent to Raffles Hospital for a heart condition on Wednesday (May 5) was among four new community cases on Friday (May 7).
The man tested positive for Covid-19 the next day even though he was asymptomatic, and his serology test also came back positive indicating he could be shedding minute fragments of the virus RNA from a past infection which are no longer transmissible and infective to others, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
A 72-year-old Singaporean retiree who had been sent to Raffles Hospital on Wednesday because of a heart condition was among four new community cases yesterday.
The man, who was asymptomatic, tested positive for Covid-19 the next day, and his serology test also came back positive - indicating that he could be shedding minute fragments of the virus RNA from a past infection that are no longer transmissible and infective to others, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). But given that we are not able to definitively conclude when he had been infected, we will take all the necessary public health actions as a precautionary measure, it said.