First case of Zika virus infection in Singapore

A file photograph showing a mosquito 'Aedes aegypti', that transmit the Zika virus, in a laboratory in San Salvador, El Salvador, on 07 February 2016. - EPA

SINGAPORE: The first imported case of the Zika virus infection has been reported in Singapore on Friday (May 13).  

The patient is a 48-year-old male Singapore permanent resident who had travelled to Sao Paulo in Brazil from March 27 to May 7.