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SINGAPORE - People serving stay-home notices (SHN) are isolated to prevent them from transmitting the disease to anyone else should they have Covid-19.
Experts said there are various ways this could have happened.
Professor Ooi Eng Eong of the Duke-NUS Medical School, who specialises in emerging infectious diseases and microbiology, suggested hotel-based transmission be investigated and standard operating procedures should be audited for compliance.
In its statement on Saturday (Dec 19), the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Singapore Tourism Board said: The Government takes a serious view of any breach in protocols and will investigate and take actions should there be non-compliance.
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13 imported COVID-19 cases who served stay-home notice at Mandarin Orchard hotel investigated for potential link
The Ministry of Health (MOH) is investigating 13 COVID-19 cases who served their stay-home notice at Mandarin Orchard Singapore hotel after they were observed to have high genetic similarity despite coming from different countries. The health ministry and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said on Saturday (Dec 19) that this suggests the cases were likely infected from a similar source and they cannot exclude that transmissions could have occurred at the hotel. Tan Si Hui reports.
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Singapore Probes 13 Infections Among Quarantine Cases at Hotel
Bloomberg 12/19/2020 Wes Goodman
(Bloomberg) Singapore is investigating 13 cases of Covid-19 infections among people who served their quarantine at a hotel along the city’s Orchard Road shopping strip.
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The cases, all imported, had “high genetic similarity” despite the victims arriving from 10 different countries, the government said in a statement on Saturday. Singapore said it conducts whole genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis on all Covid-19 cases, and it takes about four weeks to culture the virus and complete the sequencing.
The people were confirmed between Nov. 2-11 to have Covid-19, and had stayed at the Mandarin Orchard Singapore hotel between Oct. 22 and Nov. 11. They arrived from places including Bahrain, Canada, Indonesia, Myanmar, Netherlands, the Philippines, South Korea, the U.A.E., the U.K. and the U.S.