New community COVID-19 case after 15 days shows virus still 'lurking about' in the community: Experts

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SINGAPORE: A new COVID-19 case in the community - after more than a fortnight with no such cases reported - indicates that the virus is still ...

"It goes to show how difficult it is to eradicate the virus. The chief reasons being the ability to shed the virus for a long time, and the ability of the virus to transmit even though the patient is asymptomatic."came from asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic transmissions, and it was not until large nursing home clusters formed that the disease was recognised, said President of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Paul Tambyah.

READ: New community COVID-19 case had dinner with 12 family members at Seoul Garden, investigations under way On Nov 21, MOH revealed that COVID-19 patients visited Bugis Street and the Kopitiam @ Jurong East while they were still infectious. Thus, there will always be a"very small risk of spillovers" from any infected travellers to the community, as a negative swab test after a 14-day stay-home notice may not completely rule out the chance of an infection developing.

"After all, the major outbreaks of COVID-19 in Singapore in late January and mid-March were all started by incoming tourists and returning Singaporeans who have been infected prior to entering Singapore." READ: COVID-19 PCR tests for companies, individuals to be made available from approved providers from Dec 1

 

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Lunch now at neighbourhood coffee shop, nearby tables with 5 pax/table fully seated, drinks on table, all are not eating and drinking, mask down, and keep talking and talking. Why need to talk so much?

If you go to coffee shops during lunch hours especially near offices and industrial parks, you will see gathering, talking without mask, no safe distancing, all talk and talk...

And yet people already meeting gathering like nothing . Why eat and drink need to talk so much?

Could it be a “false positive” result? Has MOH able to derived possible source of infection?

qPCR test is not a suitable tool for diagnosing Covid19, the high rate of false positives adds fodder for fearmongering. Even the Covid19 antigen test is laughably bogus!

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