5 COVID-19 Cases Today (30 Nov); 1 Case is in the Community

Today’s the last day of November, and it’s time to look at our report card again.

On the last day of October, we had 12 cases and they were all imported. Back then, the number of locally transmitted cases has just started to drop.

So how do we fare on the last day of November?

Today (30 November 2020), as of 12pm, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 5 new cases of COVID-19 infection.

4 of them are imported while 1 is in the community. Details of the community case are not revealed yet.

This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 58,218.

Everything About the Tekka Centre Screening That Found 2 Past COVID-19 Infections

On 26 Nov 2020, 876 stallholders in and around Tekka Centre turned up for the surveillance testing exercise.

874 of them tested negative while two tested positive for Covid-19.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced that the two cases are likely to be past infection cases after serological tests were administered.

Both patients are also asymptomatic cases.

Just A Quick Flashback:

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test merely checks for the presence of the Covid-19 virus, no matter whether it’s “alive or dead”.

As long as there are fragments of the coronavirus within the body, the test comes out positive.

The serological test, however, checks for the presence of antibodies within the body. Typically, antibodies (immunity) will form after the patient has suffered and recovered from the coronavirus.

So if a patient tests positive for the PCR test and the serological test, chances are, he or she has already been infected and recovered from Covid-19.

You can watch this video to the end to understand what the tests are (and please subscribe to our YouTube channel for more informative videos!):

Patient 1: Stallholder Selling Mutton At Tekka Centre

The first case that was discovered from the Tekka Centre surveillance testing is a 60-year-old stallholder who sells mutton at Tekka Centre.

When her test results returned positive, the woman, who is asymptomatic, was sent to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID).

She works with a co-worker at the stall in Tekka Centre and stays in Yishun with her husband who works at Mustafa Centre.

She also regularly visits her children who are staying at Bishan St 13 and Tampines St 86.

Epidemiological investigations are ongoing.

Patient 2: A Warehouse Assistant

The second patient is a 41-year-old Indian national who works as a warehouse assistant who tested positive on Friday, 27 Nov 2020.

His job requires him to do stocktakes at warehouses located at Cuff Road. He also delivers goods to Jothi Store and Flower Shop in 1 Campbell Lane.

It was emphasised that he doesn’t interact with customers during his work.

The warehouse assistants who work with him, as well as two foreign nationals who live with him, tested negative for Covid-19.

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