Health Minister Ong Ye Kung, when responding to a parliamentary question by Member of Parliament of East Coast GRC, Ms Jessica Tan, said that the TraceTogether “not cleared” issue for home recovery patients who have recovered will be resolved in the next few days.
The question was brought up in parliament today (Oct 4).
Minister Ong added that the alert will be synchronised with the patient’s discharge date, and will disappear by itself once the patient completes their home recovery.
Therefore, recovered patients would be able to return to their normal lives, 10 days for vaccinated patients and 14 days for the unvaccinated.
Process of status change
Once a person tests positive, the TraceTogether app will show that his test status is “not cleared”.
This will prevent the person from gaining entry into most buildings and from dining and grocery shopping.
The status should be typically “cleared” once a second PCR test result shows negative.
However, most home recovery people are not offered such tests as explained by Mr Ong that fully vaccinated people are automatically discharged after 10 days because their viral loads would have already dropped significantly.
He ended by saying that the IT system needs to keep up with this policy and he expects the issue to be resolved some time by this week.