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The 61-year-old is the first medical professional in Singapore to be infected with the virus. On Friday (Feb 14), the Ministry of Health said that a 61-year-old male Singaporean was among nine new cases confirmed. The doctor is case 59.
In a phone interview on Friday afternoon with The Straits Times from his hospital bed at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), the doctor, who works in a private hospital and asked not to be named, said he had a fever last Friday.
He had no other symptoms such as a cough or sore throat.
Asked if he was worried that the disease could spread to others, including his patients, he said: "After the fever, I had stayed home all the time. On the 6th (Thursday), I was well and I was working."
The fever persisted and on Feb 9, he went to the emergency care clinic at Farrer Park Hospital.
In a phone interview on Friday afternoon with The Straits Times from his hospital bed at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), the doctor, who works in a private hospital and asked not to be named, said he had a fever last Friday.
He had no other symptoms such as a cough or sore throat.
Asked if he was worried that the disease could spread to others, including his patients, he said: "After the fever, I had stayed home all the time. On the 6th (Thursday), I was well and I was working."
The fever persisted and on Feb 9, he went to the emergency care clinic at Farrer Park Hospital.