From 20 Jul to 25 Jul, our daily community case count has been going down with every passing day, albeit by small margins.
In a normal, pre-coronavirus world, this number would keep going down until it eventually reached zero.
But, of course, the coronavirus loves playing games with our already fragile heart.
That’s why the number of community infections rose to 129 yesterday, with 10 new clusters.
Here are the details:
10 New Clusters Reported from New COVID-19 Cases, Including a Jurong West GP Clinic
One of the 10 new COVID-19 clusters formed at Apex Medical Centre (Jurong), a clinic in Jurong West Street 92.
The clinic cluster has three infections linked to it, as do 6 other new clusters that were reported yesterday.
The other three cases, all named after individual cases as well, have four infections each.
With this new clusters, Singapore now has a total of 35 active clusters here.
More Cases Linked to Fishery & KTV Cluster
Just like my waistline every year, the clusters linked to the Jurong Fishery Port and KTV lounges continue to grow.
61 cases were linked to the seaport cluster, bringing its total tally to 858. It remains our biggest active cluster.
The KTV cluster, our second largest cluster, had six new cases added to it yesterday. It now has 243 infections.
28 of the new community cases had no established links to previous cases.
The number of new community cases has shot up from 479 in the week before to 1,021 in the past week.
Similarly, the number of unlinked cases has gone up to 143 in the past week from 35 in the week before.
551 Cases in Hospital
At the moment, there are 551 COVID-19 cases in hospital, most of whom are well and under observation.
18 serious cases require oxygen supplementation, while two are in critical condition in the intensive care unit (ICU). None of these 20 cases is fully vaccinated.
12 of them, who are completely unvaccinated or partially vaccinated seniors above 60, have fallen very ill.
The authorities recently announced a new system where vaccinated people who have COVID-19 – but with no or mild symptoms – will be admitted directly to community care facilities instead of being admitted to a hospital.
They will then be discharged after 14 days instead of 21 days, with a leave of absence for seven days.
Why? Well, it’s all part of our plan to learn with the disease – i.e. treating COVID-19 like it’s an endemic disease.
To know more about endemic disease, watch this video to the end:
54% of People in Singapore Have Been Fully Vaccinated
As of 25 July, 54% of our population has been fully inoculated with an MRNA vaccine.
What’s more, this figure is expected to rise to 70% by National Day, and 80% by early September.
This is why the government will review the restrictions in place, but only for vaccinated people.
As our Finance Minister Lawrence Wong explained: “So if the clusters are under control, and hospitalisation rates remain low, we will be able to ease some of the Phase 2 (Heightened Alert) measures.
“But the easing will be differentiated and extended to only vaccinated persons, because they are much better protected against the effects of the virus.”
Read Also:
- 10 COVID-19 Updates Mentioned in Parliament Summarised for You
- M’sia Now Has Over 1 Million COVID-19 Cases With Record of 17,045 Cases in a Day
Featured Image: Apex Clinic & Surgery
