Posted on 09/08/2003 4:07:01 PM PDT by riri
A PATIENT at the Singapore General Hospital tested positive for the Sars virus on Monday, triggering concern that the respiratory disease may have resurfaced here.
Hospital staff asked visitors to leave wards 74 and 78 in the late afternoon.
The Straits Times learnt that more tests were done on the Singaporean man to confirm if the preliminary test result was correct, or if it was a false positive.
He worked in a virology laboratory at Kent Ridge, but apparently was not working with the Sars virus.
A Health Ministry spokesman said that Acting Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan will hold a press conference on Tuesday once the results are known.
She said that the man was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital on Monday.
The SGH has started tracing everyone who may have been in contact with him, including those who were at the accident and emergency department when he went there last week with a fever.
It is believed that the man, who has not been to China or Hong Kong recently, was at the A&E department for two hours.
That was what I wondered.
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