SINGAPORE, May 15 (The Straits Times/ANN): Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu examined positive for Covid-19 whereas visiting Copenhagen to attend a ministerial assembly on local weather change.
She stated in a Facebook publish on Sunday (May 15) that she nonetheless managed to attend the assembly by way of Zoom.
The local weather change assembly was co-chaired by Britain and Egypt in the Danish capital from May 12 to 13.
More than 40 international locations got here collectively to debate what local weather motion must be taken to ship key commitments forward of the COP27 local weather talks in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, in November.
Fu was additionally in Switzerland for the St Gallen Symposium, which brings collectively leaders from enterprise, politics and science, from May 4 to six.
She examined positive for the virus after arriving in Copenhagen from Amsterdam, and had gentle flu-like signs.
“Otherwise, I am quite well. Have self-isolated for a few days and delayed my return to Singapore. Hope to be back in action soon,” she wrote, including that she has coped with the an infection by practising yoga to enhance her respiratory and lung capability.
Fu is amongst a number of politicians who’ve caught Covid-19 in current months.
Seven MPs got here down with the virus and needed to skip the controversy in Parliament on the Government’s funds and that of its ministries in February and March.
They included Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Indranee Rajah, who additionally needed to miss the launch of the Sakura floral show at Gardens by the Bay on March 4.
Workers’ Party chairman Sylvia Lim additionally posted a photograph of her positive antigen speedy check outcome in March, after self-isolating for a number of days.
The MPs’ infections got here amid a surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant.
Minister of State for Trade and Industry, and Culture, Community and Youth Alvin Tan additionally examined positive for Covid-19 in March after his seven-year-old daughter caught the virus.
Other MPs have additionally been contaminated with the virus beforehand, together with Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen; Mr Tan Kiat How, Minister of State for Communications and Information, and National Development; and Mr Eric Chua, Parliamentary Secretary for Culture, Community and Youth, and Social and Family Development.
Meanwhile, Singapore reported 2,651 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, bringing the overall tally to 1,242,884.
Of the new cases, 356 cases had been detected by PCR (polymerase chain response) tests and a pair of,295 by ART (antigen speedy check) tests, in keeping with statistics launched by the Ministry of Health.
Among the PCR cases, 341 had been native transmissions and 15 had been imported cases. Among the ART cases with gentle signs and assessed to be of low danger, there have been 2,253 native transmissions and 42 imported cases, respectively.
A complete of 274 cases are presently warded in hospitals, with 9 cases in intensive care models.
One demise was reported from Covid-19 on Sunday, bringing the overall demise toll to 1,363, the ministry stated. – The Straits Times/ANN