1,101 COVID-19 Cases Reported on 2 Dec With 9 New Deaths

Our daily caseload and ICU utilisation rate both went down yesterday (2 Dec), but there was one piece of bad news that overshadowed everything else.

In case you don’t know, two passengers who arrived in Singapore from South Africa on a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight had tested “preliminarily positive” for the concerning Omicron COVID-19 variant, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH).

“The cases are currently recovering in isolation wards at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID). Both are fully vaccinated and have mild symptoms of cough and scratchy throat,” MOH said.

Fortunately, both cases were isolated upon arrival in Singapore on 1 Dec, and had not interacted in the community.

Contact tracing efforts are ongoing.

That wasn’t the only bad news we got yesterday as more people succumbed to the coronavirus.

9 COVID-19 Fatalities

9 more COVID-19 cases passed away from complications, bringing our death toll to 735.

Aged between 56 and 99, all of them had various underlying medical conditions.

1,101 New COVID-19 Cases

1,101 new COVID-19 cases were reported yesterday (2 Dec), a decrease of 223 from the previous day’s tally.

The cases comprise 1,050 infections in the community, 41 in migrant worker dormitories, and 10 imported infections.

Among the local cases are 155 seniors above 60.

991 COVID-19 Cases in Hospital; 69 in ICU

At the moment, there are 991 COVID-19 cases warded in hospitals, most of whom are well and under observation.

194 serious cases require oxygen supplementation and 69 are in the intensive care unit, comprising nine cases who are unstable and under close monitoring, and 60 who are critically ill and intubated.

Our ICU utilisation rate is currently at 56.4%, a slight increase from Wednesday’s 59.7%.

Over the past seven days, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who have been critically ill in the ICU are at 0.5 and 4.2 per 100,000 population respectively.

The same figures for seniors aged 60 and above are 2.0 and 37.7 respectively.

Over the same period, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who died are 0.1 and 0.5 per 100,000 population respectively.

The same figures for seniors aged 60 and above are 0.3 and 4.8 respectively.

Currently, 87% of our population has been fully vaccinated and 87% have received at least one dose. 27% have received their booster shots.

Weekly Infection Growth Rate Rises

Our weekly infection growth rate rose to 0.70 from Wednesday’s 0.67.

This refers to the ratio of COVID-19 community cases for the past week over the week before.

The good news is that yesterday was the 20th day in a row that the figure has stayed below 1.

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