Bedok food centre safe for diners amid TB cases: Ong Ye Kung

Health Minister Ong Ye Kung reassured the public that dining at Block 216 Bedok Food Centre & Market was "perfectly safe", after the hawker centre was identified as a key location linked to several tuberculosis cases.

“Tuberculosis does not get transmitted casually through one, two or even three meetings, or sharing of plates, or shaking of hands. It requires very prolonged close exposure,” he said. “Therefore, coming to a hawker centre and eating is perfectly safe.”

The hawker centre is one of three locations in Bedok Central linked to 13 tuberculosis cases identified between January 2023 and February this year, alongside Heartbeat@Bedok and the Singapore Pools outlet in Bedok. More details: https://cna.asia/4d0hzuh

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