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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.
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SINGAPORE - Jem and Westgate will be closed from Sunday (May 23) for two weeks for deep cleaning after investigations found that there is likely ongoing transmission among visitors to the two malls in Jurong East.
The closure aims to break any potential chain of transmission and enable deep cleaning of the premises, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Saturday night. The malls will reopen on June 6.
Members of the public will still be able to access Ng Teng Fong General Hospital through Westgate and the office towers at these premises will remain open.
MOH noted that there are 10 recent cases linked to the malls, of whom four were detected during testing operations, which are still in progress.
This brings the total number of cases to 61,799.
There are 22 new cases of locally-transmitted Covid-19 infection, of whom 15 are linked to previous cases.
The remaining seven cases are unlinked.
Unlinked cases
Here are the details for the unlinked cases:
Case 63568 is a 47-year-old male Malaysia national who is currently unemployed. He was detected when he was tested on May 19 as part of our Rostered Routine Testing (RRT) of migrant workers.
On May 20, he developed a runny nose but did not seek medical attention. His RRT result came back positive for Covid-19 infection on May 21.
His earlier tests from RRT – the last being on May 5 – were all negative for Covid-19 infection. His serology test result is negative.
SINGAPORE - Two more students at Singapore Polytechnic (SP) have tested positive for Covid-19, adding to the four cases that were earlier announced.
SP said in a statement on Saturday night (May 22) that the first new case is a second-year student from the School of Computing. The 19-year-old was last in school on May 14 and developed symptoms three days later.
But this case has been classified by the Ministry of Health (MOH) as a community case linked to the Sms Infocomm cluster, which now has six cases.
MOH said in a separate update that the student, who works part-time as a food processor at Sats Food Services, had developed a fever, cough, runny nose, headache and fatigue on Monday, but did not seek medical treatment.