{"id":14452,"date":"2024-09-04T02:32:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T02:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=14452"},"modified":"2024-09-06T02:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T02:38:52","slug":"singapore-to-quarantine-close-contacts-of-patients-with-new-mpox-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/singapore-to-quarantine-close-contacts-of-patients-with-new-mpox-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore to Quarantine Close Contacts of Patients With New Mpox Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By Karoline Kan<\/p>\n<p>Source bloomberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Singapore will mandate a three-week quarantine at a designated facility if close contacts of patients infected with the new mpox strain are identified, as the city-state re-introduces Covid-era curbs in a bid to prevent local spread of the mutated virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The health ministry will begin contact-tracing once an infection with the more dangerous clade I mpox strain is confirmed, and the case\u2019s close contacts will be placed in a designated government facility for 21 days,<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"paragraph\">Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-09-04\/singapore-to-quarantine-close-contacts-of-mpox-cases-caused-by-new-strain\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-09-04\/singapore-to-quarantine-close-contacts-of-mpox-cases-caused-by-new-strain<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Karoline Kan Source bloomberg Singapore will mandate a three-week quarantine at a designated facility if close contacts of patients infected with the new mpox strain are identified, as the city-state re-introduces Covid-era curbs in a bid to prevent local spread of the mutated virus. The health ministry will begin contact-tracing once an infection with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-policy","category-government-strategy-international-cooperation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14454,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452\/revisions\/14454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}