JUST IN: All visits to hospitals in Singapore to cease for 2 weeks
The Ministry of Health in a press release on Wednesday said that this interim measure will be in place till 18 August, with some exceptions on a case-by-case basis.Birthing or post-partum mothers;For patients who are very ill, up to five pre-designated visitors may be registered, with a maximum of two at the patient’s bedside at any one time and they are only allowed to stay for a maximum of 30 minutes.
Any visitor who requires to stay beyond 30 minutes, for reasons such as caregiver training, will only be allowed after the visitor test negative on a supervised antigen rapid test, where the validity of the result of this test is 24 hours. No drinking or eating is allowed in the inpatient wards and visitors must not use the patients’ toilets in the wards as well as avoid sitting on patients’ beds, the MOH said.
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