SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 22,201 new COVID-19 circumstances as of midday on Tuesday (Mar 8), comprising 21,986 native circumstances and 215 imported infections.
This is the sixth consecutive Tuesday that case numbers have gone up from the day earlier than. Health Minister Ong Ye Kung had beforehand referred to such a sample, writing on Facebook in October 2021 that numbers would “always spike after the weekends”.
There had been 15 fatalities reported on Tuesday, taking the dying toll from coronavirus problems to 1,099.
There are 1,499 sufferers in hospital, in accordance with the most recent an infection statistics on the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) website. A complete of 190 sufferers require oxygen supplementation.
Forty-nine sufferers are within the intensive care unit, in comparison with 54 on Monday.
Most of Singapore’s new COVID-19 infections are Protocol 2 circumstances, that are those that are nicely or assessed to have a gentle situation.
Among the circumstances reported on Tuesday, 19,451 are categorized beneath Protocol 2, comprising 19,294 native circumstances and 157 imported infections.
Another 2,750 circumstances had been confirmed by way of polymerase chain response (PCR) exams, with 58 of them being imported infections.
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Tuesday’s caseload is the very best since Mar 1. The weekly an infection progress price is 0.95, similar as on Monday. A quantity beneath 1 signifies that the variety of new weekly COVID-19 circumstances is falling.
Singapore has recorded 868,542 COVID-19 circumstances because the begin of the pandemic.
As of Monday, 95 per cent of Singapore’s eligible inhabitants have accomplished their full vaccination routine beneath the nationwide vaccination programme.
About 69 per cent of the overall inhabitants have obtained their vaccine booster photographs.
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Source : channelnewsasia.com
