Publisher : 8world
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
HDB Block 111 on Tampines 11th Street.
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After nine residents of the same HDB room in Tampines were diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2, the authorities provided 160 patients and visitors of 58 units in the same HDB room with covid tests. Currently, 60 people are known to be negative.
Health Minister Gan Kim Yong revealed on 2 July 2020 at a press conference of an inter-departmental anti-epidemic working group that the authorities found a man working in a guest dormitory infected with the coronavirus through a positive test last month.
Afterwards, six people who lived with the patient in the HDB unit at Block 111 on 11th Street in Tampines were also diagnosed with the disease.
Four days later, another resident living in the same flat but on different floors was diagnosed with the disease, and the person who lived with her was subsequently diagnosed. Therefore, the authorities decided to take additional precautions.
Mr Gan said that because these residents did not have close contact with the diagnosed patients, the chance of contracting the disease was very low but just in case, they contacted 160 residents and visitors, provided them with tests, and monitored them by phone for tracing.
The Ministry of Health will contact these 160 residents every day until the 14-day infection cycle ends on 12 July.
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