SINGAPORE: Twelve of the 14 workers who tested positive for COVID-19 after disembarking from a Scoot flight from Singapore to Tianjin on Aug 19 ...
Singapore's discharge process for COVID-19 patients is"robust", and the guidelines are"more stringent" than those recommended by the World Health Organization , said MOH.adopted by MOH, COVID-19 patients in Singapore who are assessed to be clinically well by day 21 of the illness can be discharged. The new criteria was announced by Health Minister Gan Kim Yong on May 28.
Singapore's discharge process for COVID-19 patients is based on the latest local and international clinical and scientific evidence that shows that"viable virus was not found in COVID-19 patients after the second week of illness", said MOH on Tuesday. "Countries adopt different discharge criteria that may take into consideration factors beyond public health or scientific literature. Our discharge criteria have also been shared with the Chinese authorities."At a COVID-19 multi-ministry task force press conference last Friday, MOH's director of medical services Kenneth Mak said that a "small proportion" of workers may have"persistent shadows of non-viable viral segment fragments".
READ: Business and official travellers on Singapore-China 'fast lane' arrangement must get COVID-19 swab tests All eight asymptomatic cases did not have a fever when their temperature was recorded at Tianjin Binhai International Airport, the Tianjin Daily reported. Seven of them tested positive for COVID-19 when they were given nucleic acid tests while under quarantine.
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