41 new COVID-19 cases linked to KTV cluster; situation ‘troubling and disappointing’, says Ong Ye Kung

[Homelander]

SINGAPORE: A total of 41 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore are linked to the KTV lounge cluster, a situation that Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said is “very troubling and disappointing”.

 

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday (Jul 14), Mr Ong said: “We knew about cases like that happening in Korea, in Hong Kong nightlife, people coming very close together, some with hostesses, and leading to big clusters. So we have never allowed such activities for the past more than one year.

 

“And so any outlets providing hostess services, dice games and all this very close contact, were never allowed, knowing and learning from the experiences of places like Hong Kong and Korea. So for this to now happen has been troubling (and) disappointing.”

 

The police will be taking action against lounges and hostesses who may have breached the current safe management measures in place, he added. 

The 41 cases are among 56 new locally transmitted infections announced on Wednesday.

 

There are now 53 cases linked to the KTV lounge cluster, including a passenger of a Dream Cruises ship.

 

The first reported case in the cluster, or index case, emerged when she went to a general practitioner with acute respiratory infection symptoms on Jul 11, said MOH’s director of medical services Kenneth Mak. 

 

After she tested positive and was admitted into the hospital, MOH commenced contact tracing and epidemiological investigations and discovered that she was a short-term visitor pass holder from Vietnam who had frequented many KTV outlets, he added. 

 

Some other cases that emerged after contact tracing lived with her in the same household, with 12 cases linked to the cluster as of Tuesday, said Assoc Prof Mak. 

In the 41 cases reported on Wednesday, nine were already under quarantine, and the rest were detected through surveillance, he added. 

 

This number includes a close contact who had embarked on a cruise and tested positive on the ship, he added. 

The Dream Cruises ship returned to Singapore on Wednesday morning after a passenger tested positive, hours before it was scheduled to return on the same day. 

 

The ship, which was carrying 1,646 passengers and 1,249 crew members, left Singapore last Sunday at 9pm for a four-day "cruise to nowhere". 

MOH had previously confirmed that the passenger tested positive for COVID-19 after he was taken to the National University Hospital for treatment and further observation, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said in an update earlier on Wednesday afternoon. 

 

The COVID-19 case, a 40-year-old passenger, was identified on Tuesday as a close contact of another case on land. The passenger was then isolated and a polymerase chain reaction test came back positive, said STB.

 

Those who have visited the KTV lounges in the past 14 days, or from Jun 29, should come forward to get tested for COVID-19, said the Health Minister. 

 

“If you’re still somehow uncomfortable for whatever reason, and really don’t feel like doing it, at the very least I can only urge you if you’ve visited KTV lounges and interacted with hostesses since Jun 29, at the very least stay at home, tell your family about it,” he added. 

 

“Make sure you have your own room, isolate yourself, get your family to buy you some ART kits, test yourself, don’t interact with anybody, and monitor your health for the next 14 days.” 

[Huat Zai]

Knn, lao btss already,  don't know how to self service ah, drag the whole country down with you.  Diu, Diu lay lo mo, lay!

[Homelander]

Imagine is some company big shot CEO or important ppl go...how to go swab test

[ManOfTheHour]

Divorce case gonna increase again lol

[socrates469bc]

seems like @meng.huat kor kor's prediction coming true today liao.

 

18 hours ago, meng.huat said:

knn... today hp buzz non stop...

many chiongster friends panic mode...

KTV siao all paranoid already...

then those find vietbu ones also asking around....

 

somemore got fake news spreading in whatsapp say is K2 vietbu... in the end is tanglin side KTV...

 

im expecting more "unlinked" cases in the coming days...

and the KTV cluster to explode...

some families may be broken up... 

 

[Homelander]

After testing can go back kneel liao

 

Now durian season...got red prawn, msw, black gold...many types of husk to choose for the waifus

 

[Huat Zai]

1 hour ago, Homelander said:

Imagine is some company big shot CEO or important ppl go...how to go swab test

 

1 hour ago, ManOfTheHour said:

Divorce case gonna increase again lol

 

1 hour ago, socrates469bc said:

seems like @meng.huat kor kor's prediction coming true today liao.

 

 

 

45 minutes ago, Homelander said:

After testing can go back kneel liao

 

Now durian season...got red prawn, msw, black gold...many types of husk to choose for the waifus

 

Not scare, ah gong say confidential, all you lao heroes quickly go check

 

Confidential Covid-19 tests for those who visited KTV lounges, interacted with social hostesses

[Standing Birdy]

Satki vietcongs pwned sinkies

[Homelander]

1 minute ago, Huat Zai said:

 

 

 

Not scare, ah gong say confidential, all you lao heroes quickly go check

 

Confidential Covid-19 tests for those who visited KTV lounges, interacted with social hostesses

i dun get how the confidential testing works. 
 

if hubby go test positive. the contact tracing will call the wife, family and recent contacts to test too ma

 

unless they dun tell the wife, just say someone close to u kana covid. pls let us test u. 

[Standing Birdy]

1 minute ago, Huat Zai said:

 

 

 

Not scare, ah gong say confidential, all you lao heroes quickly go check

 

Confidential Covid-19 tests for those who visited KTV lounges, interacted with social hostesses

You think  waifu ish kumgongbu ah? Bought durian for you to enjoy riao

[Standing Birdy]

1 minute ago, Homelander said:

i dun get how the confidential testing works. 
 

if hubby go test positive. the contact tracing will call the wife, family and recent contacts to test too ma

 

unless they dun tell the wife, just say someone close to u kana covid. pls let us test u. 

When waifu ask them why need to test they will keep replying "it's confidential" similar to this

[Huat Zai]

7 minutes ago, Homelander said:

i dun get how the confidential testing works. 
 

if hubby go test positive. the contact tracing will call the wife, family and recent contacts to test too ma

 

unless they dun tell the wife, just say someone close to u kana covid. pls let us test u. 

Testing confidential, test result public.

[Huat Zai]

11 minutes ago, Standing Birdy said:

Satki vietcongs pwned sinkies

 

[meng.huat]

1 hawker at TPY kena from KTV... entire hawker centerr closed for washing...

another 40 years old traced from KTV on cruise ship... whole ship kena call back and do mass testing... the 40year old guy in the end become positive...

 

this time really hong kan liao...

1 group of viet bu KTV ger can do so much damage... 

[socrates469bc]

12 hours ago, meng.huat said:

1 hawker at TPY kena from KTV... entire hawker centerr closed for washing...

another 40 years old traced from KTV on cruise ship... whole ship kena call back and do mass testing... the 40year old guy in the end become positive...

 

this time really hong kan liao...

1 group of viet bu KTV ger can do so much damage... 

 

thats why come out play must be careful, careful and very careful.

 

[Cynical Ape]

A moment of silence for all the Tiko peks and horny unkers...now that they can't patronise those lupsup KTVs to TNN and hanky panky. 

[Cynical Ape]

On 7/14/2021 at 6:41 PM, Standing Birdy said:

Satki vietcongs pwned sinkies

 

Notch bad really, but picture machiam used by those Viet bride agencies to fool sinkie guys lulz

[Standing Birdy]

28 minutes ago, Cynical Ape said:

 

Notch bad really, but picture machiam used by those Viet bride agencies to fool sinkie guys lulz

Go HCMC Hanoi and see for yourself. Vietcong quality ish tokong. See you 精尽人亡 first or bank account picha first

[Homelander]

The spread

[socrates469bc]

1 hour ago, Homelander said:

The spread

 

and kor kor just brought up an interesting question and that is in the ktv cluster, how many r vaccinated.

 

in prior clusters, moh always announced how many r vaccinated to show how sakti the vaccines r, but not this round.

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-cases-singapore-ktv-cluster-moh-local-unlinked-jul-16-15231412

 

“There is continuing evidence that vaccination helps to prevent serious disease when one gets infected. Over the last 28 days, 17 local cases required oxygen supplementation, were admitted to ICU or passed away. Thirteen are unvaccinated, four are partially vaccinated and none was fully vaccinated,” added MOH.

 

note how moh play with words and give a blanket assertion without giving account of the basis of their assertion.

 

nb, the severity of infection is subjected to various other factors such as whether the infected is of poor health etc.

 

also moh no specified which cluster they belonged to.

 

so if vaccines effective, moh would have say how many lao tikos r unvaccinated liao.

 

moh, pls come clean on ur dataset!!!!!!!!

 

[Homelander]

12 minutes ago, socrates469bc said:

 

and kor kor just brought up an interesting question and that is in the ktv cluster, how many r vaccinated.

 

in prior clusters, moh always announced how many r vaccinated to show how sakti the vaccines r, but not this round.

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-cases-singapore-ktv-cluster-moh-local-unlinked-jul-16-15231412

 

“There is continuing evidence that vaccination helps to prevent serious disease when one gets infected. Over the last 28 days, 17 local cases required oxygen supplementation, were admitted to ICU or passed away. Thirteen are unvaccinated, four are partially vaccinated and none was fully vaccinated,” added MOH.

 

note how moh play with words and give a blanket assertion without giving account of the basis of their assertion.

 

nb, the severity of infection is subjected to various other factors such as whether the infected is of poor health etc.

 

also moh no specified which cluster they belonged to.

 

so if vaccines effective, moh would have say how many lao tikos r unvaccinated liao.

 

moh, pls come clean on ur dataset!!!!!!!!

 

Vaccines dun work on lao tikos…zhut zhut here zhut zhut there…everywhere zhut zhut

[socrates469bc]

1 hour ago, Homelander said:

Vaccines dun work on lao tikos…zhut zhut here zhut zhut there…everywhere zhut zhut

 

sakti lao tikos is baoed the whole ktv one, so vaccines no vaccines dont matter.

 

 

and not kpkb like this kgk xdd.

 

28 minutes ago, HarrisY said:

Jin emose, dunno when can mit my atb gf again

 

If add no more dine in, den I can onli stay at home n cry rike a dkgk haiz

 

Edited July 18, 2021 by socrates469bc

[Satki]

was in Hanoi many years ago for a IT trade show. Sinkies hired local female translators.

 

all of them wear aodai

 

all like can see through

 

sold nothinh there 

 

but i guess no one cared

[socrates469bc]

7 hours ago, Satki said:

was in Hanoi many years ago for a IT trade show. Sinkies hired local female translators.

 

all of them wear aodai

 

all like can see through

 

sold nothinh there 

 

but i guess no one cared

 

that time in 2005-8 usd100 can play gao gao and song song double or triple fly.