COVID-19: First patient in Singapore discharged after 28-day stay, counts himself lucky - report

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SINGAPORE — The first person to be confirmed with COVID-19 infection in Singapore was discharged on Wednesday (19 February), after a 28-day stay at Singapore General Hospital.

SINGAPORE — The first person to be confirmed with COVID-19 infection in Singapore was discharged on Wednesday after a 28-day stay at Singapore General Hospital .

“The situation back in mainland China is so much more complicated. There are too many patients, so who knows how I would have been treated,” he said in Mandarin. First-ever trip outside of mainland ChinaWang, a Shanxi native who arrived in Singapore with his family from Guangzhou on 20 January, revealed that it was his first-ever trip outside of mainland China. As a result of his hospitalisation, it was also the first time he spent Chinese New Year overseas.

Wang had developed a fever and a cough a day after arriving in Singapore. On 22 January, on the advice of his son, he went to SGH’s emergency department to seek treatment.“After I was diagnosed with the virus, I tested negative for the first three days of hospitalisation,” he said. “However, on the fourth day, I tested positive again.”

 

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