Singapore : No Proof Yet Omicron More Severe Than Other Variants

 COVID-19 Omicron Variant: Channel News Asia pronounced that the ministry stated  extra human beings inflamed with Omicron version travelled via Singapore to Malaysia and Australia. More information and similarly research on Omicron are needed, Singapore's Ministry of Health stated.

There is presently no proof to signify that signs related to the Omicron version of COVID-19 are special or extra excessive than the ones of different variants, or that modern vaccines and therapeutics might be useless in opposition to the brand new version, in line with a information record mentioning Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH).

Channel News Asia pronounced that the ministry stated  extra human beings inflamed with Omicron version travelled via Singapore to Malaysia and Australia.

More information and similarly research on Omicron are needed, the Ministry of Health stated including that it's miles looking ahead to to peer extra such instances being pronounced globally withinside the coming weeks.

"Should the Omicron version be extra transmissible than Delta and emerge as the globally dominant version over time, it's miles a depend of time earlier than it establishes itself in Singapore," the Ministry of Health stated on Friday.

"But the extra measures will assist to shop for time to study extra approximately coping with Omicron, and to maintain with our booster programme to bolster our collective resilience for higher safety in opposition to this new version."

Ministry of Health stated it would want to introduce or alter its measures "at brief notice" in reaction to the "fluid" situation.

On Omicron infections transmitting via Singapore's Changi Airport, Ministry of Health stated the primary case travelled from Johannesburg on November 27 on a Singapore Airlines flight, and arrived right here the identical day for his transit flight.

The passenger then travelled to Sydney on some other Singapore Airlines flight arriving on November 28.

The New South Wales Ministry of Health in Australia on Friday showed he turned into a high quality case, the Ministry of Health stated in a announcement on Friday.

The guy had in advance examined terrible on November 24 earlier than leaving South Africa, and had remained withinside the transit protecting vicinity at Changi Airport till his departure for Sydney, stated the Ministry of Health.

The 2nd traveler arrived from Johannesburg thru Singapore Airlines flight on November 19, and turned into withinside the transit protecting vicinity till her departure to Malaysia the identical day.

This case turned into in advance pronounced as Malaysia's first detected case of the Omicron version.

At a briefing in advance on Friday, Malaysian Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin stated the traveler turned into a 19-year-antique female who's a pupil at a non-public college in Ipoh, Perak country in northern peninsular Malaysia, and had finished her COVID-19 vaccination.

On Friday night, Singapore's Ministry of Health stated 15 passengers on board the flight have been diagnosed as her near contacts, however none had entered Singapore or interacted with the network withinside the city-country, and they all had remained withinside the transit protecting vicinity.

Contact tracing is ongoing for each instances, and there may be presently no proof of any network transmission from them, in line with a record through The Straits Times mentioning the Ministry of Health.

Meanwhile, all visitors coming into Singapore on vaccinated tour lanes (VTL) will quickly ought to take COVID-19 checks each day for seven days on arrival because the united states of america tightens measures in opposition to the Omicron version.