NTU faculty member, 2 students returning from overseas test positive for Covid-19
SINGAPORE — A faculty member and two students from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have tested positive for Covid-19 after returning from abroad, the university said on Tuesday (March 24).
All three cases are unrelated, and are currently being treated at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, the university said.
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SINGAPORE — A faculty member and two students from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have tested positive for Covid-19 after returning from abroad, the university said on Tuesday (March 24).
In an email circular to students, faculty and staff that was seen by TODAY, the NTU President’s Office wrote that the faculty member, who returned from the United States, had not been on campus since early March.
The two students, who both returned from different parts of the United Kingdom, have not been on campus since February, it also said.
All three cases are unrelated, and are currently being treated at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases.
No further information was given on the nationalities or genders of the students or faculty member, or why they were overseas.
“NTU staff are in touch with them, and the university will provide them with the necessary assistance and support,” said the email, which was signed off by Ling San, the university's deputy president and provost as well as Tan Aik Na, its senior vice president of administration.
The email urged students and staff to adhere to the Government’s health and safety advisories of deferring overseas travel, seeking necessary approval when returning to Singapore, and complying with stay-home notices and leave-of-absence requirements.
It also encouraged students to download the TraceTogether mobile app, which was launched last Friday (March 20) to facilitate and support contact tracing during the outbreak.
Last week, the university’s president Subra Suresh announced via a similar circular that two other students returning from Spain had tested positive for Covid-19.
Separately, Yale-NUS College’s dean of students Dave Stanfield sent an email to students on Saturday announcing the university’s first confirmed case of Covid-19 — a student returning from the UK.
According to the email, the infected student was transferred directly from the airport to quarantine facilities at Prince George’s Park Residences on the National University of Singapore campus.
“They did not interact with any members of our community in the UK or Singapore. In other words, no one in our community was exposed to this student,” Prof Stanfield wrote.
“The student is being well looked after in a hospital and we wish (the student) a speedy recovery,” he added.
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