SINGAPORE - Singapore residents holidaying in the African continent during the peak safari season from July to September need not worry about having to be quarantined upon their return home.
Temperature and visual screening at Changi Airport for crew and passengers arriving from mpox-affected areas started on Aug 23.
He added that quarantine is not necessary at this stage, unless people coming here from African countries have had contact with someone who may have mpox or have been engaging in high-risk behaviour. The disease, formerly known as monkeypox, has been on the rise in DRC and neighbouring African countries. According to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been more than 27,000 cases and over 1,300 deaths since January 2023 in the current outbreak in the DRC.On Aug 14, WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years. However, it stressed that mpox is not the new Covid-19.
At least four countries outside the African continent have recently reported clade I mpox cases, with Thailand being the most recent to confirm its first case of the more virulent strain on Aug 22. Medical practitioners are to notify the Ministry of Health of all suspected mpox cases, and they will be isolated in hospital so that they can be further assessed and tested for mpox.
“While thermal screening was widely used during Covid-19, it is less effective for mpox due to its transmission characteristics and the possibility of asymptomatic spread.
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