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At a press conference on 14 DEC 2021 by the national Covid-19 task force, Associate Professor Kenneth Mak, director of medical services at MOH, said that the 14 imported Omicron cases are people who had entered Singapore after going to countries such as Dubai, Finland, France, Germany, India, Mozambique, Nigeria, Qatar, South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates.
Most of them were detected when they tested positive for Covid-19 on arrival.
As for the two airport workers, they were detected through work-required routine regular testing. They had no symptoms and were fully vaccinated.
There is no evidence that they were infected by people in the community. Their exposure to Omicron is likely to have been from workplace exposure to infected travellers in the transit areas.
Assoc Prof Mak added
“We do not have any evidence so far to suggest that Omicron variant is spreading in the community. But we must be prepared for the possibility of more local Omicron cases and clusters arising in future,”
source~ 16 Omicron cases detected in Singapore so far; MOH stresses vaccinations, boosters are ‘best protection’