Workers returning to Tianjin no longer infectious despite positive swab tests: MOH
SINGAPORE - Twelve of 14 passengers on board a Scoot flight from Singapore to Tianjin, China, who had a positive Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction test result were not deemed infectious, while investigations are ongoing into the other two cases.
However, the ministry said there is no evidence to suggest that these remnant viral fragments are infectious. In his response, the Health Ministry's director of medical services, Associate Professor Kenneth Mak, said:"On occasion, some of these workers may still have a positive PCR test, but all other tests done for them show that they are no longer infectious.
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