{"id":455444,"date":"2021-12-10T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455444"},"modified":"2021-12-10T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T05:43:23","slug":"singapore-reports-preliminary-positive-omicron-case-from-changi-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/singapore-reports-preliminary-positive-omicron-case-from-changi-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore reports \u2018preliminary positive\u2019 Omicron case from Changi Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger service staff member at Singapore\u2019s international airport is one of the two vaccinated cases who have tested \u201cpreliminarily positive\u201d for the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the health ministry has said.<\/p>\n<p>The local case is a 24-year-old Singaporean woman who worked in the transit holding areas of Changi Airport Terminal 1 and 3 where she might have interacted with transit passengers from Omicron-affected countries, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven its high transmissibility and spread to many parts of the world, we should expect to find more Omicron cases at our borders and also within our community,\u201d Channel News Asia cited the ministry as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger service staff member at Singapore\u2019s international airport is one of the two vaccinated cases who have tested \u201cpreliminarily positive\u201d for the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the health ministry has said. The local case is a 24-year-old Singaporean woman who worked in the transit holding areas of Changi Airport Terminal 1 and 3 where she might have interacted with transit passengers from Omicron-affected countries, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Thursday. \u201cGiven its high transmissibility and spread to many parts of the world, we should expect to find more Omicron cases at our borders and also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}