SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 2,470 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Monday (Nov 1) as 14 more people died from complications due to the coronavirus.
The fatalities were aged between 56 and 95. All of them, except for an unvaccinated individual, had various underlying medical conditions. The Health Ministry (MOH) did not specify what these conditions were.
This brings Singapore's death toll from the coronavirus to 421.
The number of new cases reported on Monday is down from the 3,163 reported on Sunday.
Among Monday's cases, 2,467 infections were locally transmitted, comprising 2,189 in the community and 278 in migrant workers' dormitories.
Three were imported cases, MOH said in its daily update released to the media at about 10.50pm.
The weekly infection growth rate was 1.05 as of Monday. This refers to the ratio of community cases for the past week over the week before.
As of Monday, Singapore has reported a total of 200,844 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
The Health Ministry will expand Singapore's ICU capacity further, in preparation for a potential rise in severe cases, Senior Minister of State for Health Janil Puthucheary said in Parliament on Monday.
“We are currently working with our hospitals to ramp up from 219 to 280 ICU beds for COVID-19 patients. These can be ready this week, if needed,” he said.
Dr Puthucheary said that the next expansion will be to 350 beds, adding that the Health Ministry has been repurposing existing hospital wards, such as single rooms and isolation rooms, into additional ICU beds.
"We are also asking the private hospitals to set aside ICU beds to assist in managing both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients who are critically ill," he said.
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The fatalities were aged between 56 and 95. All of them, except for an unvaccinated individual, had various underlying medical conditions. The Health Ministry (MOH) did not specify what these conditions were.
This brings Singapore's death toll from the coronavirus to 421.
The number of new cases reported on Monday is down from the 3,163 reported on Sunday.
Among Monday's cases, 2,467 infections were locally transmitted, comprising 2,189 in the community and 278 in migrant workers' dormitories.
Three were imported cases, MOH said in its daily update released to the media at about 10.50pm.
The weekly infection growth rate was 1.05 as of Monday. This refers to the ratio of community cases for the past week over the week before.
As of Monday, Singapore has reported a total of 200,844 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
MOH TO INCREASE ICU CAPACITY
The Health Ministry will expand Singapore's ICU capacity further, in preparation for a potential rise in severe cases, Senior Minister of State for Health Janil Puthucheary said in Parliament on Monday.
“We are currently working with our hospitals to ramp up from 219 to 280 ICU beds for COVID-19 patients. These can be ready this week, if needed,” he said.
Dr Puthucheary said that the next expansion will be to 350 beds, adding that the Health Ministry has been repurposing existing hospital wards, such as single rooms and isolation rooms, into additional ICU beds.
"We are also asking the private hospitals to set aside ICU beds to assist in managing both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients who are critically ill," he said.
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