4 new community Covid-19 patients linked to Bukit Panjang transport hub cluster

[SINGAPORE] Four new coronavirus patients in the community announced on Thursday (July 30) are linked to the Covid-19 cluster at the Bukit Panjang Integrated Transport Hub, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).

The cluster, first announced last Friday, now has eight patients with Thursday's update.

The four new patients are a Singaporean and three work permit holders.

They were asymptomatic and detected as part of proactive case finding of people working in a new workplace cluster that has emerged.

All four tested positive on Wednesday but test results showed that they were likely to have past infections, and are no longer infectious, said MOH.

Meanwhile, Watsons, My Briyani House and McDonald's in Hillion Mall, which is linked to the transport hub, were added to the list of places visited by infectious coronavirus patients.

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Mr Teh Tarik deli within the transport hub was also newly added to the list, along with department store myCK at 478 Tampines Street 44, Causeway Point and Al-Sahira Restaurant at 200 Jalan Sultan.

The ministry provides the list of locations and the times that infectious Covid-19 patients have visited for at least 30 minutes to get those who were at these places at specific periods to monitor their health closely for two weeks from the date of their visit.

The full list of locations and times can be found on MOH's website.

It has said that close contacts would already have been notified and that there is no need to avoid these places as they would have been cleaned if needed.

There were 278 new coronavirus cases confirmed as of Thursday noon (July 30), taking Singapore's total to 51,809

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