Over and above serving a 14-day Stay-Homlme-Notice (SHN) at a dedicated facility, travellers from Taiwan were also required to serve an additional 7-day SHN at their place of residence. Short-term travellers with Air Travel Passes were also not allowed to enter Singapore if they’d been to Taiwan in the previous 21 days. Non-Singaporeans and permanent residents had to obtain a negative PCR test within 72 hours before departure for Singapore.
On 23 June 2021, MOH announced that travellers from Taiwan can choose to serve their SHN in their homes rather than at dedicated facilities.
Currently, travellers from Taiwan must undergo an on-arrival COVID-19 PCR test, a 14-day SHN at a dedicated facility or place of residence, and a PCR test before the end of their SHN.
On 5 Aug 2021, MOH announced that from 7 Aug 2021 Saturday onwards, all travellers arriving in Singapore with travel history to Taiwan within the last 21 days before departure must take a PCR test on arrival in Singapore. If their test result is negative, they will be permitted to go on with whatever activities freely in Singapore as if they are not slient carriers of the Tyrannical Delta Variant of COVID-19. This is how MOH is managing the risk of transmission to the Singapore community.
“As the global situation evolves, we will continue to adjust our border measures to manage the risk of importation and transmission to the community,” MOH said.
This open-shut, cat and mouse game with the coronavirus seems to be the the game MOH is playing over the last one and half years. This is called leaders with hindsight, not foresight or vision - a new breed of millionair leadersheep.
Infections increased, locked down.
ReplyDeleteInfections became less, because of the lockdown, opened up.
Infections increased again, because of opening up, locked down again.
Infections decreased, because of the lockdown, opened up again.
Infections increased, because of the relaxation of precautions, locked down or imposed restrictions again.
Infections decreased, relax restrictions.
Infections increase, impose restrictions.
And so the ding-dong, yo-yo, open-shut, flip-flopping decisions go on and on for 18 months.
Now that the decision is made to switch the term Pandemic to Endemic,
so as to open up, what do you think will be the next decision?
Disaster for Singapore is looming. Be forewarned of more infections and more deaths with rookies in charge!
ReplyDeleteHahaha
ReplyDeleteThe mice are coming out today. More mice will be out in full force on the 18th August.
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
The mice ran up the clock
The clock struck one
The mice ran down
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Again and again boys and girls! It's fun!
If we think that high vaccination rate will provide herd immunity, just look at Israel and UK for real life example.
ReplyDeleteChina provides the best strategy that was followed by Australia and NZealand, zero tolerance. Treating Covid19 as a pandemic will be costly just to open the economy. Penny wise pound foolish.
Herd immunity is already a dead horse not worth flogging.
ReplyDeleteHerd immunity can only be valid if fully vaccinated people en masses cannot be infected with the virus. Using that argument is now basically clutching at straws.
When fully vaccinated people are getting infected and are infecting others in more ways than those not vaccinated. For example, fully vaccinated people now have the wrong mentality that they are immune and thus are free to let their hair down. That makes them more dangerous to others.
With the narrative now on the need for third booster shot, the potential for big Pharms to go even further is unlimited and unrestrained.
Why is the garment delaying? Covid is spreading in our homes. When are they giving us the 3rd booxter shot? All these scholars in ministry, and we are still so slow.
ReplyDeleteHow come we can allow more people in trains, but not in restaurants?
ReplyDeleteMs Ho Ching explains...
Simple!
The MRT trains have high performance air cleaning systems.
The air in train cabins are changed at the equivalent to 10-14 times an hour. This is like having a whole train of clean air every 5-6 minutes.
As a benchmark, in infectious disease isolation wards, we have air change equivalent to replacing the whole room of air every 5 minutes.
In contrast, many restaurants have split unit aircons.
These split unit aircons simply recirculates the air, and this allows aerosol particles to accumulate, including aerosol particles carrying infectious virus.
True, some bigger restaurants may have central aircons which clean the air.
But usually, these only have air change equivalent at best of 4-6 times an hour, or between 10-15 minutes.
And very often, having a portion of fresh air introduced would mean high cost, as the hot fresh air would burn more electricity to cool down.
So many businesses may close off the vents, and thus, we end up recirculating stale air, albeit with better cleaning capabilities that a central AHU can have in place.
So air quality and air cleaning capabilities and capacities are a major difference between the MRT trains and any restaurants.
@ 5:54 pm,
ReplyDeleteI am not convinced. Why?
1. She only compared trains and restaurants. What about buses? Buses are as crowded as the trains, if not more. Buses do not have the same air-conditioning capability as trains.
2. Whether clean air at every 5-minute intervals or every 1-minute intervals, the air will still carry the coronavirus from one person to another, from one place to another.
3. Clean air is not the same as sanitised air. She talked as though the clean air can kill the viruses floating in ths air. Only sanitised air can provide some form of protection against certain viruses. Clean air cannot.
4. Even in hospitals, where sanitised air is present, and not as crowded as in trains and buses, nurses, patients and visitors still get infected.
So, the talk about clean air is irrelevant, even if it is at 5-minute intervals. The coronavirus only requires a few seconds to infect. 5 minutes = 300 seconds. That is ample time for the coronavirus to infect many people in one session.
Only daft Singaporeans would easily fall for such bulls.
According to the Ministry of Health, the 64-year-old woman who passed away on the same day she received her first Covid-19 vaccination shot died of hypertensive heart disease and coronary artery disease.
ReplyDeleteA July 31 Facebook post of a woman named Charlene Yong was widely shared last week, wherein she wrote that her mother had collapsed unexpectedly around eight hours after receiving her first Covid jab.
Ms Yong had written in the post that according to the coroner’s report, “hypertensive and coronary artery disease” were listed as responsible for her mother’s death, but she and her family had questions about their mother’s passing and wanted closure as well as a “better” understanding of “the true cause of death”
TODAY reported on Sunday (Aug 8) that MOH had responded to inquiries concerning the matter, saying it had been informed of Ms Yong’s mother’s death by Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, where she had received emergency medical treatment earlier that day, on July 25, which was when she received her first Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty shot.
MOH is quoted as saying, “She was assessed by trained healthcare personnel to be suitable for Covid-19 vaccination prior to vaccination, observed on-site for about 30 minutes post-vaccination and was well.”
As for the cause of death, the ministry wrote, “Based on the autopsy findings, the certified cause of death is hypertensive heart disease and coronary artery disease. This is consistent with the patient’s history of heart disease, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension.”
MOH further noted that the number of heart attacks, which are caused by coronary artery disease, have not increased after people received their vaccination shots, according to data from Singapore as well as other countries.
“We see about 1,000 strokes and heart attacks every month, handled by our public hospitals, and as we vaccinate in large numbers, coincidental strokes and heart attacks after vaccination will occur,” added MOH.
Ms Yong had written that her mother lived an “active life and is mostly healthy except for controlled hypertension and mild diabetes.”
Her mother’s unexpected death led Ms Yong, who said that she “used to be an advocate to the COVID-19 vaccination” to question the vaccine’s safety.
“What could have happened during the course of the vaccination that robbed her of her life?
Or was it just pure coincidence that she has to return to Jesus on the day where she received her first dose of vaccination?”
source: theindependent.sg (Aug 9)
Or was it just pure coincidence that she has to return to Jesus on the day where she received her first dose of vaccination?”
ReplyDeleteWhat does the pathologist report say in the death certificate? Did they also test the blood for the epithelial cells and what was the reading for SGPT/SGOT ratio? Difficult to tell if it was from the vaccine without more details.