Who’d have thought that we’d still be seeing over a hundred COVID-19 cases on the last Sunday of August?

As of 12pm today (29 Aug), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 133 new cases of COVID-19 infection.

124 of them are locally transmitted cases, with 34 cases currently unlinked.

21 cases are linked to the Bugis Junction cluster.

Based on yesterday’s number,  the number of new cases in the community has increased from 260 cases in the week before to 551 cases in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has also increased from 82 cases in the week before to 144 cases in the past week.

The 7-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 58.1 and 20.6 respectively.

Sinopharm COVID-19 Vaccine will be Available in S’pore from Tomorrow (30 Aug)

From tomorrow (30 Aug), China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine will be available in Singapore.

It will be obtainable at some hospitals and clinics, and will be priced at either S$98 or S$99 for two doses, including GST.

That ain’t cheap, but you can’t put a price on safety.

Living in Singapore, it probably won’t surprise you that many of the available slots for tomorrow have already been booked.

Sinopharm’s vaccine is now the fourth being used in Singapore. Like the Sinovac vaccine, it is imported under the Special Access Route, and is not included in the national vaccination programme.

Read the full article here.

389 Cases in Hospitals; 8,667,278 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Administered

389 cases are currently warded in hospital. There are currently 16 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation, and 6 in critical condition in the ICU.

Of those who have fallen very ill, 16 are seniors above 60 years, of whom 11 are completely unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.

As of yesterday, there are currently 66 clusters, ranging between 3 and 1,155 infections.

As of 27 August 2021, we have administered a total of 8,667,278 doses of COVID-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme (Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty and Moderna), covering 4,500,430 individuals, with 4,291,659 individuals having completed the full vaccination regimen.

In addition, 164,336 doses of other vaccines recognised in the World Health Organization’s Emergency Use Listing (WHO EUL) have been administered as of 27 August 2021, covering 85,489 individuals.

In total, 79% of our population has completed their full regimen/ received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines, and 83% has received at least one dose.

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