Toddler evacuated from Wuhan among two new Covid-19 cases in Singapore

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SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Two more cases of coronavirus infections have been confirmed in Singapore, bringing the total number to 77, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Monday (Feb 17).

One of the new cases is a one-year-old Singaporean boy who was evacuated from Wuhan on a Feb 9 Scoot flight. He had no symptoms when he boarded the flight and was quarantined when he landed.

He was identified as a contact of case 50, the 62-year-old male DBS Bank employee who was confirmed to have the virus on Feb 12. The first Singaporean to test positive for the virus was discharged on Sunday afternoon. The 47-year-old woman, who gave her name as Zhang, is case 15. Case 14 has also been discharged. He is a 31-year-old man from China who holds a Singapore work pass. He arrived from Wuhan on Jan 26 and tested positive on Jan 30.

 

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