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Guests moved from Mandarin Orchard Singapore after Covid outbreak
Singapore’s luxury Mandarin Orchard hotel has stopped accepting new bookings as the Ministry of Health investigates a Covid-19 cluster linked to the hotel.
The precautionary measure takes immediate effect.
There have been 13 infections discovered so far with a link to the hotel.
It involves Singaporeans returning from overseas and underwent stay-home notices quarantining at the hotel.
The individuals returned from various countries but all had high genetic similarity, and were probably infected from a similar source.
Officials say that is most likely at the hotel.
Quarantining guests are housed in a dedicated tower and do not have any interaction with other guests, the hotel said.
Still, the hotel said it will now check out all guests from the hotel as an extra precautionary measure.
A full deep clean and disinfection will take place with the Ministry of Health and he National Environment Agency.
The ministry said it has started testing all hotel staff.
Written by Ray Montgomery, Asia Editor
TravelMole Editorial Team
Editor for TravelMole North America and Asia pacific regions. Ray is a highly experienced (15+ years) skilled journalist and editor predominantly in travel, hospitality and lifestyle working with a huge number of major market-leading brands. He has also cover in-depth news, interviews and features in general business, finance, tech and geopolitical issues for a select few major news outlets and publishers.
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