SINGAPORE: Singapore reported more than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases for a fifth straight day on Saturday (Oct 9) as 11 more people died from complications due to the virus.
The fatalities are five men and six women aged between 56 and 90. Four of them were unvaccinated against COVID-19, three were partially vaccinated and four were fully vaccinated.
Ten of them had various underlying medical conditions, while one partially unvaccinated case had no known medical conditions.
The 56-year-old patient who died was partially vaccinated and had multiple underlying medical conditions, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
This takes Singapore's death toll from the coronavirus to 153.
A total of 3,703 new infections have been reported as of noon on Saturday, an increase from the 3,590 cases on Friday.
Among these, 3,700 infections are locally transmitted, comprising 2,868 cases in the community and 832 in migrant worker dormitories.
There are also three imported cases, said MOH in its daily update released to media at about 11.20pm.
As of Saturday, Singapore has reported a total of 124,157 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
Singapore is updating its pandemic response to simplify health protocols , as well as allow more people to recover at home. Booster jabs will be offered to more people, while those who are unvaccinated will be subject to more restrictions.
In a major step to reopening its borders, Singapore announced on Saturday vaccinated travel lanes with eight more countries, bringing the total to 11.
The wide-ranging changes come as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged Singaporeans to update their mindsets and not be paralysed by fear of the coronavirus.
With Singapore's high vaccination rate, COVID-19 has become a treatable, mild disease for most of the population, said Mr Lee in a televised national address.
He also said that Singapore will take at least three months , and perhaps up to six months, to reach a "new normal" of living with COVID-19.
That is when Singapore can ease restrictions and have "light" safe management measures, with cases stable at "perhaps hundreds a day, but not growing", the Prime Minister said.
Hospitals will also go back to "business as usual" and people can resume pre-pandemic activities and see crowds again "without getting worried or feeling strange".
Acknowledging that the next few months will be "trying", Mr Lee said that the surge in cases will "hopefully" level off and decline within a month or so.
"Sometimes it may not feel like it, but we are making steady progress towards the new normal," he said.
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The fatalities are five men and six women aged between 56 and 90. Four of them were unvaccinated against COVID-19, three were partially vaccinated and four were fully vaccinated.
Ten of them had various underlying medical conditions, while one partially unvaccinated case had no known medical conditions.
The 56-year-old patient who died was partially vaccinated and had multiple underlying medical conditions, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
This takes Singapore's death toll from the coronavirus to 153.
A total of 3,703 new infections have been reported as of noon on Saturday, an increase from the 3,590 cases on Friday.
Among these, 3,700 infections are locally transmitted, comprising 2,868 cases in the community and 832 in migrant worker dormitories.
There are also three imported cases, said MOH in its daily update released to media at about 11.20pm.
As of Saturday, Singapore has reported a total of 124,157 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
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Singapore is updating its pandemic response to simplify health protocols , as well as allow more people to recover at home. Booster jabs will be offered to more people, while those who are unvaccinated will be subject to more restrictions.
In a major step to reopening its borders, Singapore announced on Saturday vaccinated travel lanes with eight more countries, bringing the total to 11.
The wide-ranging changes come as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged Singaporeans to update their mindsets and not be paralysed by fear of the coronavirus.
With Singapore's high vaccination rate, COVID-19 has become a treatable, mild disease for most of the population, said Mr Lee in a televised national address.
He also said that Singapore will take at least three months , and perhaps up to six months, to reach a "new normal" of living with COVID-19.
That is when Singapore can ease restrictions and have "light" safe management measures, with cases stable at "perhaps hundreds a day, but not growing", the Prime Minister said.
Hospitals will also go back to "business as usual" and people can resume pre-pandemic activities and see crowds again "without getting worried or feeling strange".
Acknowledging that the next few months will be "trying", Mr Lee said that the surge in cases will "hopefully" level off and decline within a month or so.
"Sometimes it may not feel like it, but we are making steady progress towards the new normal," he said.
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