Students & a Staff Member Who Were Reported with Coronavirus on Sunday Have All Recovered

If you’re a parent and you’ve been worried about your kid going to school, this piece of news might just make you worry less.

Remember the 5 students and one staff from schools that tested positive for Covid-19 on 7 Jun?

Well, there’s been an update about their conditions:

Students & a Staff Member Who Were Reported with Coronavirus on Sunday Have All Recovered

According to the Ministry of Health (MOH), all six cases are asymptomatic ones, displaying mild symptoms and has low viral loads.

After repeating the test on the patients, it came back negative.

All six patients have since recovered and all five students have been discharged from the hospital.

The staff is still in the hospital because there are some administrative issues that have not been completed yet.

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All Six Picked Up From Proactive Screening

If you’ve been following Singapore’s most important influencer (MOH) right now, you’ll know that the average number of community cases and unlinked cases have spiked up.

Before you scream:

There’s actually a logical reason for this.

See, last time, when Singapore first started battling Covid-19, we were only doing 2,000 tests a day.

Now, we’re doing 13,000 tests a day and soon, we might be doing 40,000 tests daily.

When you test more people, you’ll discover more cases because as Covid-19 has shown us, it’s not about how many people get infected, it’s about how many cases you can detect and isolate.

According to Mr Lawrence Wong, for every one Covid-19 patient that shows symptoms, there is one asymptomatic case.

With the capability to do more tests, MOH is also moving from reactive screening (testing only if there are symptoms) to proactive screening (testing more people even if they look okay on the outside).

They have expanded the scope of their active case finding.

Students (above 12 years old) and staff who sees a doctor for the first time for acute respiratory infections (read: cough, sneeze, sore throat, fever, etc) will be tested for Covid-19.

Previously, people are only tested if they don’t recover after 5 days.

It was this expansion that led to the six cases being detected earlier.

Why Are The Schools Not Closed?

The biggest question of the day: if there are Covid-19 cases, shouldn’t the schools be closed?

Aren’t they considered potential clusters now?!

Sadly for the students studying in these schools: No, they’re not.

MOE explained that testing seems to indicate that the students were infected even before schools restarted.

Which means the transmission was outside of the schools and not within.

However, MOE promised that if a cluster was to form within a school, that particular school will be closed.

With safe distancing measures and stepped up testing, however, MOE is confident that they will not let things get to that stage.

So parents, let’s worry less and focus on following safe distancing measures (if you have to go out) so you won’t bring Covid-19 back home to your kids, and potentially his schoolmates.

Although they might just thank you for it.