SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 2,038 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Thursday (Nov 18), as six more people died from complications due to the coronavirus.
The fatalities were aged between 57 and 84. All of them had various underlying medical conditions. The Ministry of Health (MOH) did not specify what these medical conditions were.
The number of COVID-19 deaths reported on Thursday is the fewest since Oct 23. This brings Singapore’s death toll to 625.
The number of new cases reported on Thursday is down from the 3,474 infections reported on Wednesday .
The weekly infection growth rate is 0.90 as of Thursday, a small rise from the 0.89 reported on Wednesday. This refers to the ratio of community cases for the past week over the week before.
Of the new cases reported on Thursday, 2,031 infections were locally transmitted, comprising 1,964 cases in the community and 67 infections in migrant workers' dormitories.
There were seven imported cases, MOH said in its daily update released to the media at about 11.10pm.
As of Thursday, Singapore has reported 246,853 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
A total of 1,435 cases were warded in hospital, with 226 patients requiring oxygen supplementation in general wards.
Fifty-three cases were unstable and under close monitoring in the intensive care unit (ICU), and 60 were critically ill and intubated.
The current overall intensive care unit (ICU) utilisation rate is 58.8 per cent.
MOH first released information on the overall ICU utilisation rate on Oct 25, when the rate was 83.6 per cent. It had not dipped below 60 per cent until Thursday.
Singapore is easing COVID-19 safety measures "step by step" to avoid having to make "unsettling U-turns", Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Wednesday.
However, things "probably will not be back to status quo ante", Mr Lee said. He was speaking to Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the close of the first day of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum on Wednesday.
As the virus mutates and the science evolves, Singapore has had to "change course", from stamping out COVID-19 to living with it.
"We have had to carry the population along and persuade people that it is necessary for us now to accept the few thousand cases a day. We will try our best but there will be casualties and there will be mainly old people who will not make it through," said Mr Lee.
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The fatalities were aged between 57 and 84. All of them had various underlying medical conditions. The Ministry of Health (MOH) did not specify what these medical conditions were.
The number of COVID-19 deaths reported on Thursday is the fewest since Oct 23. This brings Singapore’s death toll to 625.
The number of new cases reported on Thursday is down from the 3,474 infections reported on Wednesday .
The weekly infection growth rate is 0.90 as of Thursday, a small rise from the 0.89 reported on Wednesday. This refers to the ratio of community cases for the past week over the week before.
Of the new cases reported on Thursday, 2,031 infections were locally transmitted, comprising 1,964 cases in the community and 67 infections in migrant workers' dormitories.
There were seven imported cases, MOH said in its daily update released to the media at about 11.10pm.
As of Thursday, Singapore has reported 246,853 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
HOSPITALISATIONS
A total of 1,435 cases were warded in hospital, with 226 patients requiring oxygen supplementation in general wards.
Fifty-three cases were unstable and under close monitoring in the intensive care unit (ICU), and 60 were critically ill and intubated.
The current overall intensive care unit (ICU) utilisation rate is 58.8 per cent.
MOH first released information on the overall ICU utilisation rate on Oct 25, when the rate was 83.6 per cent. It had not dipped below 60 per cent until Thursday.
SINGAPORE EASING COVID-19 MEASURES STEP BY STEP TO AVOID "U-TURNS": PM LEE
Singapore is easing COVID-19 safety measures "step by step" to avoid having to make "unsettling U-turns", Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Wednesday.
However, things "probably will not be back to status quo ante", Mr Lee said. He was speaking to Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the close of the first day of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum on Wednesday.
As the virus mutates and the science evolves, Singapore has had to "change course", from stamping out COVID-19 to living with it.
"We have had to carry the population along and persuade people that it is necessary for us now to accept the few thousand cases a day. We will try our best but there will be casualties and there will be mainly old people who will not make it through," said Mr Lee.
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