Covid-19: Another Changi Airport employee among 3 new cases to test preliminarily positive for Omicron variant

Three more people have tested preliminarily positive for the Omicron coronavirus variant; one is an airport frontline worker and the other two are imported, the Ministry of Health said on Friday (Dec 10).

All three cases are fully vaccinated and asymptomatic, and recovering in isolation wards at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases.

One is a 38-year-old man who works as a passenger service staff at the departure gates at Changi Airport Terminal 3.

Another is a 30-year-old woman who returned to Singapore via a Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) from the United Kingdom on Dec 8.

The third is a 26-year-old man who travelled to Singapore via VTL from the UK on Dec 8.