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Stallholders, shop owners and food delivery workers in Chinatown to get COVID-19 test before Chinese New Year
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Stallholders, shop owners and food delivery workers in Chinatown to get COVID-19 test before Chinese New Year
Pedestrians wait along a street intersection decorated for Chinese New Year in Chinatown, Singapore on Jan 19, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Roslan Rahman)
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SINGAPORE: COVID-19 surveillance testing will be extended to cover stallholders, shop owners, those working in the food and beverage industry and food delivery workers operating in the Chinatown area in the leadup to Chinese New Year.
SINGAPORE, Jan 18 The vaccination exercise for the aviation and maritime sectors began in earnest today, with 37,000 front-line workers expected to be vaccinated against Covid-19 over the next two months. Of these, 20,000 workers are from the aviation industry. They include those who may.
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Singapore: 37000 Workers Including Seafarers Start Getting Vaccinated
January 18, 2021
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As COVID vaccine rollout to frontline workers takes center stage all over the world, seafarers and aviation workers are being prioritized alongwith healthcare workers, and Singapore has taken the lead in this matter as it has said that maritime workers would be getting the vaccine on priority.
Singapore became one of the first countries to prioritise COVID-19 vaccinations for frontline maritime personnel. These workers go onboard vessels at our port and come in contact with people from outside of Singapore. This vaccination exercise is part of the national COVID-19 vaccination strategy to protect frontline personnel and their
This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 59,083.
There are five cases of locally-transmitted and 19 imported cases of Covid-19 infection. Screenshot via MOH.
Four community cases
There are four cases in the community, comprising two who are currently unlinked, and two who are linked to previous cases.
Case 59340: Unlinked
Case 59340 is a 39-year-old male Singaporean who works at Singapore Scouts Association in Bishan, handling mainly administrative work in the office.
He is also a part-time bus driver with Westpoint Transit who plies specific routes for Cameron (Singapore) Pte Ltd and GlaxoSmithKline Tuas.
He developed a fever on Jan. 11 and sought medical treatment from a general practitioner via tele-consultation, and again at a polyclinic on Jan. 13 where he was tested for Covid-19 as part of MOH s enhanced community testing for those with acute respiratory infection.