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SINGAPORE – Nine in 10 imported Covid-19 cases in Singapore between Wednesday (March 18) and Friday last week did not show symptoms, like fever, when they had passed through the border checkpoints.
As a result, the cases were detected only later on, the Health Ministry said on Monday (March 23) in response to queries.
It explained that about 90 per cent of the imported cases reported in Singapore during the three-day period saw a doctor at a hospital or general practitioner’s clinic after they returned home.
“They had not displayed symptoms when at the checkpoints,” it added.
Travellers into Singapore have to walk past thermal scanners, which would help identify those who are feverish. Those who are observed to be so, or have other respiratory symptoms will be required to do a Covid-19 swab test.
Singapore had 119 cases altogether in those three days, with 87 of them being imported cases, the ministry’s figures show.
There have been mounting concerns that people with coronavirus may not show symptoms, such as fever, dry cough and shortness of breath.
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