still dare to go chinatown for cny? it's a covid infested colony like changi airport!

[kaninabuchaojibye]

Chinatown Complex stall owner and son who works at Changi Airport Swensen's test positive for COVID-19
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SINGAPORE: A stall owner who works at a sundry shop in Chinatown Complex and his son who works at Changi Airport Swensen's were among Singapore's three community COVID-19 cases reported on Thursday (Feb 11).

The stall owner is a 66-year-old permanent resident identified as Case 60138. He first developed a dry cough on Jan 28 and "anosmia", or loss of smell, on Feb 9, but did not seek medical attention, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).

His infection was detected through community surveillance testing of stallholders and shop owners in Chinatown on Feb 9.

The man's test result came back positive for COVID-19 on Feb 10, and he was taken by ambulance to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID).

His serology test result has come back negative, indicating that this is likely a current infection, said MOH.

The stall owner's 32-year-old son, identified as Case 60150, is a Singaporean and was identified as a contact of his father.

He works part-time as a waiter at Swensen's at Changi Airport Terminal 3, and was last at work on Feb 8.

The man developed a runny nose on Feb 8 after work but did not seek medical treatment, said MOH. As he had been identified as a close contact of his father, MOH contacted the man on Feb 10 and he was placed in quarantine.

He reported symptoms and was taken to NCID, where he was tested for COVID-19 on the same day. His test came back positive on Feb 11.

His serology test result has also come back negative, said MOH.

FATHER, SON DID NOT USE TRACETOGETHER

"Both Cases 60138 and 60150 do not use the TraceTogether app, and while they both have TraceTogether tokens, they did not carry their tokens with them," said MOH.

"Individuals are reminded to turn on their TraceTogether App or carry their TraceTogether token at all times so that we can quickly identify and isolate the close contacts of COVID-19 cases, and limit further infections."

"We strongly urge everyone to do their part to reduce the risk of transmission," said the ministry.

"Those who are unwell, including those showing early or mild symptoms, should be socially responsible and seek medical attention immediately and stay at home to prevent the spread of illness to others."

MORE THAN 1,200 PEOPLE TESTED IN CHINATOWN

Singapore's COVID-19 multi-ministry task force has been conducting community surveillance testing for identified community groups.

"This enables us to contain cryptic cases in the community early, and prevent further transmission," said MOH.

In the lead up to Chinese New Year, surveillance testing was done on Feb 8 and Feb 9 for stallholders, shop owners, people in the food and beverage industry and food delivery workers operating in and around Chinatown.

One test sample was rejected by the laboratory, and the remaining 1,219 individuals tested negative for the virus, said MOH.

NSF DEVELOPED SYMPTOMS AFTER MEDICAL LEAVE

Singapore's remaining community case reported on Thursday is a full-time national serviceman (NSF).

He works at the Singapore Armed Forces premises at Paya Lebar Airbase and does not stay in camp. His work does not entail interacting with other units, said MOH.

The 20-year-old felt unwell on Feb 3 and sought medical treatment at a general practitioner clinic. As he did not have symptoms associated with acute respiratory infection, he was not tested for COVID-19 but was placed on medical leave, added MOH.

The NSF subsequently went back to work on Feb 8. The next day, he developed a fever and runny nose. He sought medical treatment at the medical centre located at Paya Lebar Airbase and was swabbed.

His test result came back positive for COVID-19 on Feb 10, and he was taken by ambulance to NCID. His serology test result has come back negative, said MOH.

Epidemiological investigations for all three community cases are ongoing.

In the meantime, all the identified close contacts of the cases, including their family members and co-workers, have been isolated and placed in quarantine, said MOH. They will be tested at the start and end of their quarantine period to detect asymptomatic cases.

The Health Ministry said it would conduct serological tests for the close contacts to determine if the cases could have been infected by them.

Singapore reported a total of 12 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, bringing the country's case tally to 59,759.

 

[bobby]

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

 

[cocobobo]

Knn this guy doing round island trekking or what knn?

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

Knn this guy doing round island trekking or what knn?

round island topo training like in army days
haaaa

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

Knn this guy doing round island trekking or what knn?

crucially missing from all these is his mode of transportation...most probably mrt and bus...good luck!

 

[bobby]

Ask healthy people to use mask when Lo Hei

Ask healthy people not to have more than 8 for CNY gathering at home

Shut down healthy restaurants for CNY reunion dinners

But fucking allow infected foreigners to come in to visit relatives, study and work.

 

[shittypore]

You break their law they collect Ang Pow frm you, FT come in they they also get Ang Pow frm FT. Sinkies lan lan.

 

[knnccb]

chennaitown and chennai airport

 

[gingerlyn]

Chinatown means China virus hotspot. Don’t associate yourself with China or India. We are Singaporeans

 

[knnccb]

Chinatown means China virus hotspot. Don’t associate yourself with China or India. We are Singaporeans

but problem is, they want to associate with us

 

[dredd]

Knn this guy doing round island trekking or what knn?

I think this is a list of places visited by all carriers, not only one.

 

[millim6868]

CB foreigner PR again , spreading,should charge and jail them

 

[syed putra]

Cancel PR and citizenship. Send them back to the shithole they came from.

 

[Leongsam]

Are they actually sick?

 

[myfoot123]

Are they actually sick?

Yes. mentally. Not seeing doctor, move about freely with the virus and still go to work.

 

[laksaboy]

Knn this guy doing round island trekking or what knn?

No more overseas holiday, so what's wrong with having a domestic holiday?

 

[congo9]

Send these 3rd World mercenary PR back. Also please revoke the citizenship of the son.

 

[syed putra]

Everywhere around the globe, chinatown businesses are down.

Covid-19: Chinatowns fighting racism and pandemic to survive
By Sophie Williams
BBC News

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image captionSan Francisco's Chinatown, pictured in May 2020, has been hit hard by the pandemic
Lunar New Year is usually the busiest period for businesses in Chinatowns around the globe. But in 2020, it coincided with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, leaving many restaurants empty. A year on, the BBC speaks to business owners to find out how they survived - and what's next.
Sam Wo's has been a fixture in San Francisco's Chinatown for more than a century, but the last year has been hard.
Coronavirus has forced restaurants across the world to shut their doors, and Chinatowns have been hit particularly hard. The virus first emerged in late 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, leaving businesses like Sam Wo fighting not just fear, but anti-Asian sentiment.
"All the Italian restaurants in North Beach were still busy and packed and then you went through the tunnel to Union Square and those guys had lines waiting to get in. And then you drive around Chinatown and it's completely empty," recalls Sam Wo's co-owner Steven Lee, describing the weeks before shutdown orders came in early last year.


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"So we know that xenophobia was affecting small businesses. Why would other districts be busy and we're not?"
In the 12 months since, it has been forced to cut its staff numbers from 23 to three due to a lack of customers.

"People wouldn't show up, they were just scared," Mr Lee tells the BBC. "We had to rally and tell people to fight the virus, not the people and all this kind of stuff - but it didn't help much."

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image captionYokohama's Chinatown pictured in 2019 ahead of the Rugby World Cup
In Yokohama, home of Japan's largest Chinatown, it went beyond just people avoiding local businesses. Notes containing anti-Chinese messages were left on the doors of several restaurants last March.
They were already in deep trouble financially: sales figures had plummeted to about 10% of what they were in a typical peak period.
Yokohama's mayor came out in support of the businesses, telling local media that he was "utterly infuriated" with the letters.
In response, locals rallied around Yokohama's Chinatown, sending messages of support on social media, telling businesses to "hang in there" and promising to visit their establishments.

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image captionYokohama's Chinatown pictured in February during the build up to Lunar New Year
And then, the shutdowns arrived, meaning the restaurants were unable to open their doors.

"I know many businesses in Chinatown have closed. It's terrifying," Ying Hou, who runs Shandong MaMa in the Australian city of Melbourne, tells the BBC. "There are gift houses where tourists come to buy souvenirs - most of them didn't make it and have closed down."
She has also suffered following the introduction of one of the strictest lockdowns in the world in the middle of last year.
Ms Ying says her business is still making only 50% of what it was making before the pandemic and so she has turned to making frozen dumplings that customers can cook at home. Luckily, they sell well: Shandong MaMa is the only place in this Chinatown to sell fish dumplings.

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image captionA sign pictured on 14 February attempts to reassure visitors about a Melbourne restaurant's cleaning policy
Melbourne gave rent relief to many Chinatown businesses last year, but for Ms Hou, that has now come to an end.
"If we continue paying the full rent with the 50% income, then we are really going to go broke."
Her main goal for the next year or so? "To survive," she said.

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image captionChinatown is right in the centre of Melbourne and has hosted numerous events such as this fashion show in 2019
In New York's Chinatown, Karho Leung, founder of barber shop 12 Pell, has also thought of new ways to bring in customers.
"Chinatown in New York City is the one place in the world that never really closes. We don't close for Christmas, we don't close for New Years, only a handful end up closing for Chinese New Years."
But last year, even the essential shops had closed by May.
"Everything was a ghost town and it was really scary to see," he said.

• Coronavirus fear hits London's Chinatown
• 'I'm not a virus': French Asians angered by racism

When it was time to reopen, he looked at ways of preparing his business for customers. Taking inspiration from Hong Kong, he added dividers, temperature checks and humidifiers to keep the air fresh, before putting together a video for social media.
It went viral, explaining to customers what safety measures were in place.
"We saw the spike immediately and it was the busiest week we ever had in our lives, and then the next week was super silent," he said. "There were probably fewer than 20 clients who ended up booking and then we started getting worried."

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image captionNew York's Chinatown pictured in January 2021. Many businesses are finding ways to bring people back to the area
Mr Leung realised it wasn't just his business that had a lack of customers. The shop 12 Pell is located on "barber's row" and many other stylists were just hanging around with nobody to serve.
It was then that he decided to offer free haircuts to people who spent $45 in Chinatown. All they had to do was show their receipts.
"We looked at our situation and we thought, we have nobody that's coming in anyway. Why don't we offer everybody a deal?"
The company has also worked on other social media initiatives such as getting its audience to order directly from restaurants instead of companies such as Uber Eats.
"We were leveraging social media as a main way to push the younger audience to come back," Mr Leung said.

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image captionNew York's Chinatown pictured just before Lunar New Year in 2019. A year later and the city would look entirely different
Send Chinatown Love, a group of New Yorkers, is also trying to help businesses by working with them to start a website, create their own social media accounts and in some cases help redesign menus and logos.
"Everything started happening around January, February of last year, which is the most lucrative and joyous and festive times for Chinatown. They took a hit with that business and lost most of it," Louise Palmer, a representative for the group, said. "So they ended up going into lockdown in March at a deficit, which kind of set a really terrible precedent for what the rest of the year would look like."
The organisation is also promoting Chinatown on social media, creating "food crawls" they hope will help increase foot traffic.
In San Francisco, foot traffic is already increasing. With the reintroduction of outdoor dining, many places have put in place outdoor seating so that customers can eat outside.

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image captionSan Francisco's Chinatown is slowly regaining its visitors thanks to outdoor dining
It has given Sam Wo's co-owner hope.
"I was there last week in Chinatown on Saturday and it was booming," Mr Lee said. "Actually, there were a lot of people out."
He is now waiting for indoor dining to start so people can return to Sam Wo, as the hill-top location means outside seating is impossible. He's also ready to open up the first nightclub in the city's Chinatown in more than 40 years, which he hopes will also help revitalise the area.
"We're the oldest Chinatown in the country. We're the tourist attraction that everybody comes to when they come to San Francisco. So we have to preserve it."

 

[bigcockman]

Chinatowns all over the world must be shut down forever to prevent another repeat of China Virus outbreak.