Singapore currently has nine active clusters, the highest so far in months, with the largest of which linked to a nurse at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) with 40 cases in all
This story was first published on April 30, 2021, and updated on May 4, 2021.
On April 27, it was announced that a possible Covid-19 cluster had surfaced in Tan Tock Seng Hospital after a nurse there was infected. It was later found that there were likely infections in a doctor and three other patients in a general ward.
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The news comes as Singapore sees a sudden uptick in the number of community cases and the number of active clusters in the country which currently stands at nine.
As of May 4, there are 40 cases linked to the Tan Tock Seng Hospital cluster and testing and attempts to contain the spread are continuing.
Read on to find out everything we know about the Tan Tock Seng cluster so far.
1. A nurse was the first to be infected
On April 27, the Health Ministry reported that there were three new Covid-19 community cases. One of them was a 46-year-old nurse from Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
According to the Ministry of Health (MOH), she had developed a cough, sore throat, and body aches on Tuesday and decided to seek medical treatment at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
She was asked to do a Covid-19 test and it came back positive on the same day. Her serology test result is, however, still pending.
The nurse was immediately warded at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID). She reportedly had also received both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine earlier this year.
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