By Karoline Kan
Source bloomberg
Singapore will mandate a three-week quarantine at a designated facility if close contacts of patients infected with the new mpox strain are identified, as the city-state re-introduces Covid-era curbs in a bid to prevent local spread of the mutated virus.
The health ministry will begin contact-tracing once an infection with the more dangerous clade I mpox strain is confirmed, and the case’s close contacts will be placed in a designated government facility for 21 days,