Super spreaders: How one family gathering led to a cluster of 23 coronavirus cases

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Some of Singapore's largest clusters had their origins in seemingly innocuous events, like a CNY family gathering or dinner at Safra.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Many people have had their fill of staying at home, and some are yearning to see other family members who do not live with them.

It was attended by a couple on Jan 25. One of them had no symptoms at all, while the other was feeling just mildly unwell. One of them - most likely the woman as she had been feeling mildly unwell prior to the dinner, passed on the virus to a 28-year-old man who lived in Mei Hwan Drive.The young man works at Grace Assembly of God Church and was among the first of seven people at the Chinese New Year gathering to become sick and confirmed to have Covid-19. He became Case 66.

The wife had already recovered by then, and her infection was discovered only because she was put through a serology test which confirmed that she had developed Covid-19 antibodies. "It will be really embarrassing if you passed the virus on to others today because you went visiting when you shouldn't," said Professor Dale Fisher, a senior infectious diseases expert at the National University Hospital .

"I think it is irresponsible to go out if you don't need to," he said."Every individual person must comply and stay at home as much as he or she can.

 

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Morons

Seems like you can just read a free version over here

As long as a newspaper is considered bias or propaganda outlet, people will not be paying to read it. it should be the other way around. After so many years so not getting it...

Why paywall ST?

Paywall for a Covid article.? For shame.

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