COVID-19: SG to enter Phase 3 from 28th Dec

[Adrianli]

4 hours ago, Watwheels said:

This wan not covid but TB. Buy 4D/Toto also kenna.

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/2-tuberculosis-clusters-linked-bedok-betting-outlet-found

I think this year's angbao luckydraw snaking queue will be even longer.

BCG vaccination since young not helping?

[Watwheels]

13 minutes ago, Adrianli said:

BCG vaccination since young not helping?

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The disease was prevalent in Singapore until the 1970s, so older folk could have acquired an infection when younger. It is estimated that between 2 and 29 per cent of Singaporeans have latent TB infections.

People with latent TB do not experience symptoms and are not infectious but about 10 per cent of this group may develop active TB over the course of their lifetime.

Symptoms of an active infection may include a persistent cough that lasts at least three weeks, low-grade fever, night sweats, fatigue, weight loss and chest pain.

 

Apparently it's a disease that plays hide and seek with you.

[1fast1]

31 minutes ago, Adrianli said:

BCG vaccination since young not helping?

BCG vaccination mainly helps to reduce certain childhood complications of TB like disseminated (miliary) TB and brain covering infection (TB meningitis). Beyond that, it offers little protection against lung infection (pulmonary TB) especially in adults, but this is somewhat controversial since there are conflicting studies and reviews. The safest assumption is that BCG does not reliably protect against adult TB disease. 

Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled plague (COVID-19). 

[Kyrios]

52 minutes ago, Fcw75 said:

Keep blaming locals but yet keep importing cases in. KNN...

Lawless Wrong skillfully deflected the recent clusters' root cause to "increased intermingling during year end festivities"....

Yeah right..

[Raubern]

There are 4 cases in the community today, of whom 1 is currently unlinked and 3 are linked to previous cases.

Case 59512

Case 59512 is a 43 year-old female Singaporean who is the spouse of Case 594291. She works from home as an online trader and does not physically interact with her clients.

Case 59513

Case 59513 is a 46 year-old female Malaysian national who is a Work Pass holder. She works as a sales personnel at Toppan Merrill Pte Ltd (3 Church Street) but does not interact with clients. She is a household contact of Case 594742.

Case 59516

Case 59516 is a 35 year-old male Singapore Permanent Resident who works as a sales personnel at BS Industrial & Construction Supply Pte Ltd (34 Kallang Place). He is a co-worker of Case 59429. He developed a sore throat on 18 January but did not seek medical treatment. As he had been identified as a close contact of Case 59429, he was contacted by MOH on the same day but failed to report his symptom. On 20 January, he was tested for COVID-19 while under quarantine. His result came back positive on the same day, and he was subsequently conveyed to the National University Hospital. His serology test result is pending.

Case 59518

Case 59518 is a 42 year-old male Singaporean who works as a dive personnel at Ocean Works Asia Pte Ltd (Block 6, 13 Jalan Terusan).*

He had travelled to Indonesia for work between 4 November and 13 December 2020, and served SHN at a dedicated facility upon his return to Singapore until 27 December. His swab done on 24 December during SHN was negative for COVID- 19.*

He is asymptomatic, and was detected when he took a COVID-19 test on 20 January as part of the requirement for shore-based personnel going onboard a vessel to be tested. His result came back positive for COVID-19 infection on the same day and he was conveyed to NCID. His serological test result has come back positive, which indicates a likely past infection.

Given the relatively long time interval between his travel and positive COVID-19 test, we have classified this case as locally transmitted.

Import case

UAE - 2 Indian
US - 2
Indonesia - 3
Bangladesh - 15
India - 12

New Places Visited

17/1 (0845h - 0930h) - Hougang 105 Hainanese Village Centre
17/1 (1845h - 1930h) - Food Junction NEX
18/1 (1210h - 1310h) - Amoy Street FC

https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/4-new-cases-of-locally-transmitted-covid-19-infection-21jan2021-update

Edited January 21, 2021 by Raubern

[Sosaria]

58 minutes ago, Kyrios said:

Lawless Wrong skillfully deflected the recent clusters' root cause to "increased intermingling during year end festivities"....

Yeah right..

Might be an acknowledgement that the ring-fencing for these recent cases are uncertain - so better not mingle too much during CNY. Easier to just declare MCO 2 weeks like malaysia - quickly settle , rather than all this hand-wringing and worrying.

 

[Fcw75]

This time really CCB.

[Chongster]

Hopefully go down from 8 to 4, then still can play mahjong 

[Mustank]

10 hours ago, Turboflat4 said:

This is complete insanity. 

 

[1fast1]

3 minutes ago, Mustank said:

 

Lyrics more appropriate in first verse of this one. 

 

[Mustank]

 

I agree with straits times 

we should examine whether Singaporeans are letting their guard down

should restrict workplace numbers, shopping Center numbers, restaurant numbers, cny visitation, school numbers

 Those sick don’t report sick one should punish deep deep

 

[Tkseah]

Should penalise companies where symptomatic covid cases still report for work by closing the company premise for 14 days. This will help encourage companies to make sure sick staff don't come in.

[Beanoyip]

So many unlinked, does it mean TT is a failure?

[1fast1]

1 hour ago, Tkseah said:

Should penalise companies where symptomatic covid cases still report for work by closing the company premise for 14 days. This will help encourage companies to make sure sick staff don't come in.

I agree, but a lot of the time, staff are anxious about taking MC because it affects their appraisal and even their employability.

There should be punitive action taken against companies that penalise staff for taking MCs but that will be difficult and controversial. And companies will always give other excuses to let staff go if you paint them into a regulatory corner. 

[JanM]

On 1/21/2021 at 9:12 AM, 13177 said:

Sometimes depends on individual. Cause some people think they are only a bit unwell, should not cause a big alarm, so still continue to go work go outside.

Such mentality is common during the non covid days. Where it is common to have some flu and cough and usually such illness need to take some time to fully recover. So continue normal routine like going to work is unavoidable. 🙄 No one would just stay at home and wait for the flu and cough to recover then they go back to work. Lol.

When driving around a sharp unknown curve for the first time, we won't take it as fast as we can.  The road surface may be irregular at parts instead of the even surface that we plan for.  There may not be the spare space on the road verge to recover from an unforseen drift.  If we abandon caution and go the full throttle and survive, we gain some bragging rights and yeah some personal confidence.  If we are unlucky, we lose big, even our limbs if not our lives.

I suppose this would be my approach for most unfamiliar situations in life where there is marginal gain with substantial risk.  Just as we should not assume that the road surface ahead to be perfectly level, authorities similarly should not assume that there will be full compliance with the prescribed measures.  Just as we should not assume there will be a wide road verge to recover from an unintended drift, authorities should also be conservative in estimating their ability to quickly tamp out any local outbreaks.

[13177]

43 minutes ago, Turboflat4 said:

I agree, but a lot of the time, staff are anxious about taking MC because it affects their appraisal and even their employability.

There should be punitive action taken against companies that penalise staff for taking MCs but that will be difficult and controversial. And companies will always give other excuses to let staff go if you paint them into a regulatory corner. 

I guess companies would not say MC would affects staff who take MC often on their appraisal etc la. Wait the company kenna complain. Lol. They always indirectly penalise MC king/queen.

[Tkseah]

56 minutes ago, Turboflat4 said:

I agree, but a lot of the time, staff are anxious about taking MC because it affects their appraisal and even their employability.

There should be punitive action taken against companies that penalise staff for taking MCs but that will be difficult and controversial. And companies will always give other excuses to let staff go if you paint them into a regulatory corner. 

That's why I feel the enforcement should be top down, for Gov to penalise companies whose sick employees do not take MC, rather than penalising the sick employees. The company culture has to change first.

[Jamesc]

On 1/19/2021 at 12:18 PM, BabyBlade said:

I think what he meant was the administrative officer and his family allowed this to form into a cluster because they were ill with very obvious symptoms such as fever, loss of taste but did not visit a doctor. The transmission chain would have ended with them if they did what the para vet did below. 

It's one thing to brush off runny nose and sneezing as sinus and allergy and also diarrhea (could be Irritable Bowel Syndrome IBS sufferer) but I think when it's fever, sore throat, cough and LOSS OF TASTE (This one already self-explanatory) then please go see a doctor. Especially so if you seldom have runny nose, seldom fall sick then I think these abnormalities should be a good call to get to the doctor's asap. 

And when see doctor and he recommend getting a Covid test please just go.

Don't say I will think about it and never go.