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Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) said on Tuesday (July 14) that human error in its laboratory had led to a false diagnosis of a student who was reported as having Covid-19.
A Secondary 1 female student from Jurong West Secondary School was reported last Friday to have tested positive for coronavirus.
She was swabbed because she had been in contact with a schoolmate, a 13-year-old boy, who was previously confirmed to be infected.
With the latest findings, there is no second confirmed case in Jurong West Secondary or student-to-student transmission in the school, said Ms Liew Wei Li, Ministry of Education’s (MOE) director of schools.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung said: “On 10 July, all of us at MOE were dismayed when we learnt that at Jurong West Secondary School, a student who caught the Covid-19 virus at home, has infected another classmate.
“This would have been our first recorded Covid-19 infection in school, despite all our precautionary measures.”
He added: “To our relief, TTSH and MOH have clarified that it was a case of erroneous reporting by the testing laboratory.”
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