It might not be easy to predict who’ll be the next Prime Minister in Malaysia, but predicting the daily COVID-19 cases in Singapore has become a walk in the park.
As of 12pm today (18 Aug), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 53 new cases of COVID-19 infection.
49 of them are community cases with 19 of them unlinked.
Based on yesterday’s number, the number of new cases in the community has decreased from 481 cases in the week before to 322 cases in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has also decreased from 135 cases in the week before to 91 cases in the past week.
The 7-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 33.0 and 13.0 respectively.
First Fully Vaccinated COVID-19 Death Reported in S’pore Yesterday: It is a 90YO Man
A 90-year-old man has become our eighth COVID-19 fatality in August after he passed away from COVID-19 complications yesterday (17 Aug).
The man had developed symptoms on 29 July and was detected when he was tested for COVID-19 on 1 August as part of community surveillance testing.
The following day, he developed shortness of breath and giddiness and was conveyed to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he was admitted directly to the intensive care unit (ICU) for septic shock from COVID-19 pneumonia.
He had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but was “advanced in age and had a history of chronic kidney disease and hypertension,” MOH said.
A total of 45 COVID-19 patients have now succumbed to the disease.
404 Cases in Hospitals; 8,438,233 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Administered
404 cases are currently warded in hospital. There are currently 30 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation, and 6 in critical condition in the ICU.
Of those who have fallen very ill, 31 are seniors above 60 years, of whom 25 are completely unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.
As of yesterday, there are currently 93 active clusters, ranging between 3 and 1,155 infections.
As of 16 August 2021, we have administered a total of 8,464,972 doses of COVID-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme (Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty and Moderna), covering 4,440,268 individuals, with 4,155,680 individuals having completed the full vaccination regimen.
In addition, 151,089 doses of other vaccines recognised in the World Health Organization’s Emergency Use Listing (WHO EUL) have been administered as of 16 August 2021, covering 83,968 individuals.
In total, 76% of our population has completed their full regimen/ received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines, and 82% has received at least one dose.
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