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FRONT-LINE FIGHTERS AGAINST COVID-19 There were mixed reactions when the virus hit early in the year - some people were wary, others complacent - but an army of front-liners had been gearing up behind the scenes to keep Singapore safe. When cases began to rise, healthcare workers were ready. They had been trained to use personal protective wear and ensure good hygiene practices to reduce the chances of infection. Other essential staff continued to show up at work to keep things running, despite the personal risk it involved. These front-liners had to make sacrifices on other fronts. Nurse cli...

The Straits Times ST Singaporean of the Year 2020: Frontline heroes an inspiration to many Mr Benson Ng joined the Health Promotion Board as a swabber as he felt compelled to join the frontliners after his father contracted Covid-19 in early-2020.ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG Mr Abdul Wahab Bin Hassan is a Nurse Clinician at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases.ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI Professor Leo Yee-Sin, executive director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases on Dec 14, 2020.ST PHOTO: SHINTARO TAY Professor Ooi Eng Eong, an expert in emerging infectious diseases at Duke-NUS Me...

Front-liners in the battle against Covid-19 in S'pore Mr Abdul Wahab, a nurse clinician in NCID's ICU, had refrained from visiting his elderly mother this year but did not expect she would die last month after developing heart failure. He saw her just three times this year.ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI Mr Benson Ng felt compelled to sign up in May to be a swabber for Covid-19 tests, after seeing how ill his father became when he was infected with the coronavirus. His father was hospitalised for two weeks. ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG Mr Nigel Quek, commanding officer at Certis' Integrated Quarantine Orde...

SINGAPORE - When the Covid-19 outbreak began in January, Mr Abdul Wahab, 54, a nurse clinician in the intensive care unit (ICU) at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) refrained from visiting his elderly mother so as not to expose her to the virus. He looked forward to hugging her once it ended. When his mother developed heart failure in October, he was stuck between wanting to be by her side, and keeping her safe from anything that might be on him. But he did not expect that she would die last month. Mr Wahab had seen his mother just three times this year - twice in hospital an...

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...