Amid threat of more virulent strains, Singapore's Changi Airport tightens Covid-19 measures with zoning, movement curbsCAG’s investigations found that 23 of Covid-19-positive airport workers had worked in higher-risk areas that required direct contact with arrival and transfer passengers. These areas are now demarcated as Zone 1.
The Changi Airport cluster is the largest active Covid-19 cluster in Singapore with more than 100 people infected so far, including 43 airport workers and more than 60 members of the public.CAG’s investigations found that 23 of the infected airport workers had worked in higher-risk areas that required direct contact with arrival and transfer passengers.
Lee said that investigations showed there was a mingling of the staff members who worked in these two zones, before the new zonal system was announced. Previously, each terminal was treated as a single zone, with only the arriving passengers from “very high Covid-19 risk” countries having separate arrival processes from disembarkation to transportation to their testing and quarantine facilities.
All workers in Zone 1 must wear personal protective equipment at all times, including gowns, gloves and face shields over their face masks. Mr Jayson Goh, managing director of CAG’s airport operations management, said that CAG will also be working towards conducting daily non-invasive tests for all airport workers in Zone 1, with results available minutes after their tests.