Singapore to Quarantine Close Contacts of Patients With New Mpox Strain

 

• Health ministry to mandate 3-week isolation for close contact
• Singapore offers mpox shots to health workers, close contacts

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 the more dangerous clade I mpox strain is confirmed, and the case’s close contacts will be placed in a designated government facility for 21 days, which is the incubation period observed in Africa, according to a statement Wednesday.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-04/singapore-to-quarantine-close-contacts-of-mpox-cases-caused-by-new-strain