May 25, 2021
A cleaner at Park Avenue Rochester (top left) may be the source of the cluster at Westgate (top right) and Jem (bottom left). Four Pizza Hut staff in Punggol Plaza were also among the new cases.
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SINGAPORE - Free Covid-19 testing will be extended to those who visited Jem and Westgate between May 10 and last Saturday, after a cluster linked to the malls grew to 50 cases.
Six new cases linked to the cluster were among the 24 community cases confirmed on Monday (May 24) evening.
Meanwhile, a 15-year-old Peicai Secondary student and a 16-year-old Greendale Secondary student - who work part-time at Pizza Hut at Punggol Plaza - are among five cases that have been added to the McDonald s delivery riders cluster. The cluster was first confirmed last Saturday.
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The adjacent malls of Jem and Westgate in Jurong East were declared the centre of a new community cluster yesterday, with four cases now linked to them.
Giving details of these as well as others in the 21 community cases announced yesterday, the Ministry of Health said the four included a music teacher at Yamaha Music School, who developed a fever and sought treatment five days later.
The 59-year-old felt sick on May 16, went to a GP clinic on May 21 and had an antigen rapid test come back positive on the same day. He was immediately isolated.
The other three individuals linked to the cluster include a 39-year-old cleaner at Westgate and a 44-year-old visitor, whose preliminary tests have come back positive for the B1617 variant.
SINGAPORE - The adjacent malls of Jem and Westgate in Jurong East were declared the centre of a new community cluster on Sunday (May 23), with four cases now linked to them.
Giving details of these as well as others in the 21 community cases announced on Sunday, the Ministry of Health said the four included a music teacher at Yamaha Music School who developed a fever and sought treatment five days later.
The 59-year-old man fell sick on May 16 and went to a GP clinic last Friday. His antigen rapid test come back positive on the same day and he was immediately isolated.