Student wrongly reported Covid-19 positive due to lapse in lab
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The Secondary 1 female student was reported as a confirmed case by the Ministry of Health on July 10, 2020.
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A mislabelling of swab samples in Tan Tock Seng Hospital's laboratory led to a Secondary 1 student in Jurong West Secondary School being wrongly reported to have Covid-19 last Friday.
The hospital has apologised, and instituted additional checks to prevent a repeat of such an incident.
The female student was earlier reported to be linked to a schoolmate who was previously confirmed to be infected.
The error was discovered after subsequent tests of the student came back negative.
The mislabelled positive sample belonged to a migrant worker, who had been isolated since his swab, and who has not been in contact with any other individual.
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