A person wearing a protective gear walks next to a person wearing a face mask and gloves at Singapore s Changi Airport, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the republic on March 30, 2020. - Reuters SINGAPORE, May 22 (Reuters): A Covid-19 outbreak at Singapore s airport may have initially spread through a worker who helped an infected family arriving in the country, authorities said late on Friday (May 21), as they further ramped up their testing regime.
The airport cluster which involves about 100 cases, is part of a resurgence of infections in the Asian business hub and highlights the challenges of keeping the virus out, despite rigorous testing and quarantine measures for travelers. It is Singapore s largest active cluster.
Corona claims 8 more lives, 336 get infected
Islamabad
May 21, 2021
Rawalpindi: Another eight deaths due to coronavirus illness, COVID-19 from Islamabad Capital Territory and Rawalpindi district along with reporting of 336 new cases of the disease from the region in the last 24 hours show the severity of the third wave of the outbreak is still intact.
The death of another eight patients from the region has taken the death toll to 1,683 while confirmation of 336 new patients positive in the last 24 hours has taken the total number of patients so far registered from the region to 103,483. It is important that the number of cases reported in the last 24 hours was the highest from the region in a day after May 9.