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The Ministry of Health (MOH) has detected one more local Covid-19 case who has tested preliminarily positive for the Omicron variant on Dec. 16.

The patient (Case 276615) is a 42-year-old man who works as a loading assistant at Changi Airport Terminal 3.

He had no contact with flight passengers, according to MOH.

Fully vaccinated, mild symptoms

He is fully vaccinated and has mild symptoms, and is recovering in an isolation ward at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, MOH added.

He developed a fever on Dec. 8 and sought medical treatment at a General Practitioner (GP) clinic where he was tested for Covid-19.

He was placed on Home Recovery Programme initially.

After being identified as a close contact of an Omicron case, his sample was tested for the Omicron variant on Dec. 16 and his test result came back preliminarily positive.

The National Public Health Laboratory is conducting whole genome sequencing to confirm the variant and contact tracing is ongoing.

MOH is ringfencing the case through contact tracing.

All close contacts of suspect Omicron cases will be placed on 10-day quarantine at designated facilities and undergo polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests at the start and end of their quarantine.

Individuals who are identified to have visited places the cases had been at, and who could potentially have interacted with them, will be issued a 7-day Health Risk Warning (HRW) by MOH, the press release wrote.

There are a total of 24 confirmed Omicron cases in Singapore to date.

21 of them are imported cases while three are local cases.

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