Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates

[HVR]

Deleted my post as info has been shared by others.

Is there a website where one can check on the current clusters and their number of infected?
The news said the JEM/Westgate is the 2nd largest cluster after Changi Airport ???

Sometimes in the newspapers, but I don't know if there is a website that tracks this closely daily.

I think the reason the Jem/Westgate cluster has grown so big is that some of the other smaller clusters may have been linked to it, and there were 6 new cases reported yesterday. Not suprising considering that so many people go to Jurong East and cross paths. I can't actually figure out the clusters as the way things are reported isreally not easy to decipher. I don't know if MOH intentionally does this, or it's just poor reporting. Some poor journalist will have to untangle it all and make a graphic, I guess.

[tankee]

Sometimes in the newspapers, but I don't know if there is a website that tracks this closely daily.

I think the reason the Jem/Westgate cluster has grown so big is that some of the other smaller clusters may have been linked to it, and there were 6 new cases reported yesterday. Not suprising considering that so many people go to Jurong East and cross paths. I can't actually figure out the clusters as the way things are reported isreally not easy to decipher. I don't know if MOH intentionally does this, or it's just poor reporting. Some poor journalist will have to untangle it all and make a graphic, I guess.

From CNA website

[lee_yl]

I am not trying to discredit anyone but no matter how tight the SMMs are, it all boils down to individuals to strictly observe it. How many times have we seen smokers huddling around maskless and chit-chatting at the obscure smoker's corner.

I agree. There have been SHN facilities operating for more than a year, and the airport has been receiving arrivals for months. Any recent leakage is more likely from a human lapse, Covid fatigue or whatever you want to call it, in following protocols, rather than that the protocols are not strict enough. It's good that they have tightened protocols even more to try to prevent similar lapses, but if individuals don't follow, there is only so much the authorities can do. And in a way, it means that many people who don't really need that level of policing have to bear with it because of some who are likely to lapse without that policing.

Needless to say, there must be lapses and flaws that is why CAG announced that those flying in from high risk countries must now be segregated from the rest.
Plus from now on, all cleaners must be fully vaccinated and given PPE and trained etc. to protect themselves.

Sometimes staff / human lapse could also mean from top down, management didn’t walk the ground or do enough spot checks? LOL.

Yes, for the past 15 months, there wasn’t any major leakage at the airport but that’s because the old variant is less transmissible. But we can read from newspapers that over at India, the country is like in a state of crisis already and even SG netizens also know how to call out for temporary closure of the borders etc. How can the CAG not sense the impending danger and could only lamely claim that they now know the virus is more transmissible?
I now understand what the netizens always said, our leaders are reactive and not proactive.

[coast]

From CNA website

If the possible index case visited Westgate on May 6, infection confirmed on May 7, any reason given as to why free swab tests for those who visited between May 10 (why not May 6?) and May 22? Was her Westgate visit very short on May 6?

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Free COVID-19 swab tests are now available to people who visited Jem or Westgate between May 10 and May 22. The tests were previously offered to those who visited between May 10 and May 14.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/si ... s-14880200

[doodbug]

I am also of the view that this current slate of community cases is not entirely attributable to human lapses in not aboding by protocols.

None of the airport workers want to purposely kena Covid. Perhaps the protocols were not strict enough at airport / TTSH. Anyone holding a drink or snack or food in hand can remove their mask to consume it - whether it be in airport or hospital setting. The protocol used to allow for it.

Also, prior to the latest advice on masks, we also didn't know that we need to get masks of a certain filtration.

Compliance with protocols is not perfect - how much this contributed to the current community spread, I am not sure. But I don't think we should be quick to blame the individuals who caught Covid and assume they are non-compliant with protocol or that it is due to their human lapses. Some of them are trying very hard - like the cleaners in my office - they went for vaccine early even though they were reluctant, and their cleaning regimes and workload have increased drastically and they have to perform their duties in masks and gloves and all - must be mighty uncomfortable.

[WE2012]

From CNA website

If the possible index case visited Westgate on May 6, infection confirmed on May 7, any reason given as to why free swab tests for those who visited between May 10 (why not May 6?) and May 22? Was her Westgate visit very short on May 6?

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Free COVID-19 swab tests are now available to people who visited Jem or Westgate between May 10 and May 22. The tests were previously offered to those who visited between May 10 and May 14.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/si ... s-14880200

That is also the question that I have. They assumed that the cleaner is the cause of the JEM/Westgate cluster, but the cleaner only visited Westgate on 6 May 2021. Between 6 May to 10 May is 4 days in between, if the authorities is confident that this is the person, why did they not extend the testing to between 6 May and 22 May. And how about the source that infected the cleaner, has they been identified during SHN and what case number are they or is the source still unknown, and somewhere among us?

[emoh]

From CNA website

If the possible index case visited Westgate on May 6, infection confirmed on May 7, any reason given as to why free swab tests for those who visited between May 10 (why not May 6?) and May 22? Was her Westgate visit very short on May 6?

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Free COVID-19 swab tests are now available to people who visited Jem or Westgate between May 10 and May 22. The tests were previously offered to those who visited between May 10 and May 14.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/si ... s-14880200

That is also the question that I have. They assumed that the cleaner is the cause of the JEM/Westgate cluster, but the cleaner only visited Westgate on 6 May 2021. Between 6 May to 10 May is 4 days in between, if the authorities is confident that this is the person, why did they not extend the testing to between 6 May and 22 May. And how about the source that infected the cleaner, has they been identified during SHN and what case number are they or is the source still unknown, and somewhere among us?

Could be the 2 weeks incubation period since yesterday is already 24 May

[WE2012]

If the possible index case visited Westgate on May 6, infection confirmed on May 7, any reason given as to why free swab tests for those who visited between May 10 (why not May 6?) and May 22? Was her Westgate visit very short on May 6?

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Free COVID-19 swab tests are now available to people who visited Jem or Westgate between May 10 and May 22. The tests were previously offered to those who visited between May 10 and May 14.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/si ... s-14880200

That is also the question that I have. They assumed that the cleaner is the cause of the JEM/Westgate cluster, but the cleaner only visited Westgate on 6 May 2021. Between 6 May to 10 May is 4 days in between, if the authorities is confident that this is the person, why did they not extend the testing to between 6 May and 22 May. And how about the source that infected the cleaner, has they been identified during SHN and what case number are they or is the source still unknown, and somewhere among us?

Could be the 2 weeks incubation period since yesterday is already 24 May

The 2 weeks incubation period is only an assumption. It has not been proven that covid-19 incubation period is only 14 days.

Take the example of case 63630, a 40 years old foreign domestic worker confirmed yesterday and classified as the TTSH cluster as she visited Ward 9D. She was put into quarantine on 30 April, tested negative on 3 May. Her quarantine is extended on 8 May as she was a household contact of case 63009. But on a 22 May test, she was positive and asymptotic. Even if you just count from 8 May, that is 18 days, 4 days more than the assumed 14 days incubation period. Faced with the unknown, I really hope the authorities should be less presumptive and more conservative in how they deal with an unknown.

[.zeit]

If the possible index case visited Westgate on May 6, infection confirmed on May 7, any reason given as to why free swab tests for those who visited between May 10 (why not May 6?) and May 22? Was her Westgate visit very short on May 6?

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Free COVID-19 swab tests are now available to people who visited Jem or Westgate between May 10 and May 22. The tests were previously offered to those who visited between May 10 and May 14.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/si ... s-14880200

Expect some time lag
The places visited by confirmed cases are updated daily on a rolling basis. Venues visited by confirmed cases many days ago will pop up as and when a person is tested positive days or weeks later. Yes, there's the incubation period and some are fully vaccinated so more antibodies to fend off the virus longer.

Just a random check on the MOH list dated 18 May, this 6 May Westgate entry hadn't appeared yet. But on the 10 May list, there was a 6 May JEM Donki entry, not this cleaner I suppose.

Yesterday, they'd just tested positive a few more Harvey Norman and Pizza Hut delivery guys from the Westgate outlet, as such they've extended the period till 22 May.



Last night, my entire family's also just received a red alert on our TT informing us of ''possible exposures'' at a mega mall in town which we visited some 10 days ago! We were like, Huh? A bit belated hor? This shopping mall was never in the daily-published MOH list over the past 1-2 weeks until last night. That means someone's just been tested positive yesterday, thereafter MOH traced all his/her footprints and updated that list and alerted all those sharing overlapping times & venues with that guy.

He/she'd visited the same mall as we had during the same period, but oddly, this guy didn't check in or out any retail shop or F&B at all. He/she only spent 30min in that mall. Could be a food delivery person?

For this mall, if there's a cluster in the coming fortnight, I'm sure they would invite all shoppers and diners who'd been there on that day and days thereafter, to do a free swab too.

I find the TT token and app a bit confusing. There were some restaurant and boutiques which provided the SafeEntry Reader so I didn't scan the QR Code using my HP. I tapped with my physical token instead.

And guess what? The retail venues that I used/didn't use my physical token to check in didn't show up on my HP TT app as ''Possible Exposures'' venues! Why I didn't use the physical token to check in? They said only F&B need to check in because we need to remove our masks, but retail outlets don't need to anymore, as long as you've checked in with the TT at the main entrance of the shopping mall.

My family members did not use their tokens but their HP TT app, so they have more "Possible exposures" than me.

So you can imagine those elderly who'd used their physical tokens won't know about their ‘’Possible exposures" until the authorities alert them, or when they happen to read online news to see the updated venue list!

[starlight1968sg]

3 cases in the dorm on 25 May! This will be a concern.