SINGAPORE: Thirteen cases of COVID-19 have been picked up over three months, through a public health surveillance programme that routinely tests samples collected from patients with influenza-like symptoms at general practitioner clinics and polyclinics.
“The idea is to pick up cases that otherwise would not have not been detected,” he said then, adding that this could be because the cases show mild symptoms or they do not fit the criteria to be treated as a COVID-19 suspect case.READ: Ebola drug remdesivir used to treat COVID-19 patients in Singapore as part of clinical trials
Around 1,200 samples have been tested for COVID-19 as of Apr 28, and 13 cases were positive for the coronavirus. The polyclinics and more than 200 GP clinics are also testing all patients with prolonged acute respiratory infection to facilitate active case finding of COVID-19 infection in the community.
Mr Gan had also said on Mar 21 that cases picked up from surveillance programmes indicate that “there is continued seeding in the community". However the number of new cases in the community has fallen since then. A large number of these have been conducted in the migrant worker community as the number of cases multiplied among them since last month. MOH has said that the spike in COVID-19 cases is also due to extensive testing at the dormitories. Thousands of tests have been done each day at the dorms, which house more than 300,000 workers.reported in Singapore so far, more than 80 per cent are migrant workers residing at dormitories.
Why aren’t they doing massive full scale nationwide testing?
Good... Looks like sg government is on the right track👍..
Yeah just continue letting people “exercising” in our public spaces and let the undetected be undetected zzzzz
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