Visits to all hospital wards to cease from Aug 5 to Aug 18 following recent spike in COVID19 community cases; exceptions allowed on case-by-case basis: MOH
SINGAPORE: An interim measure to reduce potential COVID-19 transmission in hospitals will see visits to all wards ceased, with some exceptions, from Aug 5 to Aug 18, said the Ministry of Health on Wednesday .
"These cases are not linked to the previous CGH cluster which has been officially closed by Ministry of Health on Jul 31." That cluster, which had 20 cases, was closed after no cases were linked to it for 28 days.Advertisement"Any detection of cases within a hospital will invariably lead to a ward closure, limiting movements of patients and staff in and out of the affected ward," said the ministry. Affected patients and staff will also be placed on quarantine.
This is except for the patient groups below, who will be allowed visitation on a conditional and case-by-case basis, as assessed by the hospital:c. Birthing/post-partum mothers; and For patients who are very ill, up to five pre-designated visitors may be registered, with a maximum of two visitors at the patient’s bedside at any one time of no more than 30 minutes visit duration.Any visitor who requires to stay beyond 30 minutes visit duration 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.
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