The company’s first vaccine was administered to a 30-year-old Indian engineer in late January and was diagnosed more than a week later on the 6th, according to the Singapore Ministry of health.
The company’s first vaccine was administered by the Ministry of Health of Singapore. (Photo / Central News Agency)
The Ministry of Health said the Indian man worked as an engineer for a communications company in Singapore, and his job included boarding ships to install communications equipment. He had been listed as a close contact of a confirmed patient and was quarantined from Jan. 13 to 24, during which Time the test results were negative, and subsequent regular tests also came back negative.
However, the man developed a fever on February 5 and did not seek medical attention. He underwent regular testing that day and was diagnosed on the 6th.
The Ministry of Health said that although the man’s serum test results were positive, the man was judged to be recently infected due to his symptoms and the low Ct value of the PCR nucleic acid test.
In addition, the Ministry of Health said that the man received the 2019 coronavirus disease vaccine developed by Pfizer and German biotech company BioNTech on January 27, and may have started to produce antibodies in his body as a result, so the serum test result was positive.
The Ministry of Health explained that this vaccine does not contain a live virus, so it is unlikely that the injection caused the infection. It is still possible to be infected before and after vaccination, and it usually takes a few weeks for immunity to develop after the vaccination is completed.
Previously, there was a case in Singapore on January 30 in which the vaccine was confirmed despite the vaccination. A 72-year-old Singaporean citizen who works as a baggage screener at Changi Airport Terminal 1 tested positive for the virus on January 28 and 29 after receiving the first dose of the vaccine on January 25.
In addition, the Ministry of Health today reported that 11 new people have been diagnosed in the country, all of whom were imported from abroad. Ten of them were quarantined upon entry into Singapore, while another was a Singapore Airlines crew member who did not disembark from her service flight upon arrival at an overseas destination and returned to Singapore on the same flight, only to develop symptoms a few days later.
The cumulative number of diagnosed cases in Singapore is 59,732, and the number of deceased cases remains at 29.
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