Singapore: Changi Airport staff among two new Omicron cases; 682 new Covid-19 infections and five deaths on Thursday (Dec 9)

Both Omicron cases in Singapore on Thursday (Dec 9, 2021) were individuals who were fully vaccinated and have received their booster shots. - The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE, Dec 9 (The Straits Times/ANN): Two cases of Covid-19 who tested preliminarily positive for the Omicron variant have been detected.

One of them is a frontline worker at Changi Airport- the first local case - and the other is an imported case, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Thursday (Dec 9).