All 14 NUS Cases Caught Covid-19 Overseas, Those Staying In Hostels Advised To Go Home

All 14 NUS Covid-19 Cases Infected Overseas, Remaining Students In Hostels Advised To Go Home

With more students and overseas Singaporeans returning home, there have been an influx of imported cases recently.

The Straits Times (ST) reported today (30 Mar) that the National University of Singapore (NUS) now has a total of 14 cases of Covid-19.

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All 14 cases are students returning from overseas.

NUS’s Dean of Students, Associate Professor Leong Ching, informed students of this in an announcement on NUS’s website.

Meanwhile, NUS has asked their remaining students still staying in hostels to return home, if possible.

All 14 NUS cases caught Covid-19 overseas

In the announcement, Prof Leong Ching confirmed that all 14 cases of Covid-19 in NUS were imported.

All 14 students did not visit campus, and were immediately transferred to hotels to serve their Stay-Home Notices (SHN) once they returned.

NUS students bringing their schoolmates care packages during their SHN
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Of their 1,400 NUS students overseas, 93% have returned and are serving their SHN. The remaining 7% will be returning home this week, and will also serve their SHN.

Students still in hostels advised to return home

Since NUS now has e-learning facilities in place, they are encouraging all students still residing in hostels to return home, if they have homes here.

Their Dean wrote,

I know that hostel life is an essential part of the NUS experience, and this will mean a loss of community for many of us. (Unbelievably, after one month of working from home on alternate weeks, I am starting to miss even work meetings.)

But this is only so an hour. Before you know it, we’d be back, a spring in our steps. Stronger and better. To do this we need to be responsible not just to ourselves, but to each other. 

She also reminded students to do their part in the Covid-19 battle by checking their temperatures daily, and downloading the TraceTogether app.

Doing your part to fight Covid-19

With the number of cases continuing to rise and new clusters announced, looks like Singapore hasn’t hit its plateau just yet.

We have to remain vigilant until then, and after it comes, too.

Covid-19 is here to stay and we need to get used to adjusting our habits to ensure the safety of ourselves and others.

With that, please observe social distancing and start going out less. We can dance the night away once this blows over.

Featured image from NUS News.