Changi Airport COVID-19 cluster grows after Certis Cisco officer, Raffles Medical employee test positive

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Changi Airport COVID19 cluster: Raffles Medical employee and Certis Cisco aviation security officer at Terminal 3 test positive; both were fully vaccinated

- a Raffles Medical employee and a Certis Cisco aviation security officer - have tested positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of infections linked to the cluster there to 10.AdvertisementThe first case is a 44-year-old Singaporean who works as an operations officer at Raffles Medical, located at Changi Airport Terminal 3.

His test result came back positive on May 10 and he was taken in an ambulance to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases . His serology test result is pending.The man received his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Feb 23 and the second dose on Mar 16. His result came back positive for COVID-19 infection on May 10 and he was taken in an ambulance to NCID. His earlier tests from rostered routine testing – the last being on May 4 – were all negative for COVID-19 infection.

About 9,000 workers from Terminal 1, Terminal 3 and Jewel Changi Airport will undergo these tests. Terminal 2 is not open.

 

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