Singapore widens tuberculosis checks after large cluster emerges; first monkeypox case also confirmed earlier in the week


SINGAPORE, June 25 (Bloomberg): Singapore imposed imposed mandatory screening for tuberculosis in an apartment block after about 170 people tested positive for the infectious disease.

Stallholders, shop owners and their employees who are located in the complex will also be tested, the Ministry of Health said in a statement late on Friday.

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