The Chinese in Singapore are all set to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, while others are looking forward to a long weekend.
Concerned that too much mingling could lead to Covid-19 clusters forming and spreading rapidly, the Government has put new rules in place to minimise this. For example, households can have no more than eight visitors a day.
Not everyone is willing to fall in line. My mother, who is Chinese and 97 years old, has been busy planning ways to circumvent these measures. On the other hand, I have been busy trying to ensure that her plans don t pan out.
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SINGAPORE - People who have recovered from Covid-19 can get reinfected with the virus, as immunity wanes with time, even if they will likely be protected for a time, experts say.
Those who recover from the disease would typically mount a neutralising antibody response for a period of time, which generally protects from reinfection, said Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the National University of Singapore s (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.
Neutralising antibodies are so called because they bind to specific, important sites of the virus, which prevents the coronavirus from infecting a patient s cells. However, this immune response has been shown to wane with time, and the previous reports of reinfections in South Korea, Hong Kong, and other parts of the world typically happen after three months of the first infection, noted Prof Teo.
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