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1,670 COVID-19 Cases Reported on 21 Nov With 8 Deaths

2021-11-22 , 8:24 am

A lot of things have been dropping in recent days:

our daily caseload
our ICU utilisation rate
our fists which we have been shaking in frustration since 27 Sep

We’ve been expecting case numbers to breach 5,000 for a second time, but the number of new cases has declined instead, falling before 2,000.

And yesterday, it decreased once again.

1,670 New COVID-19 Cases

1,670 new COVID-19 cases were reported yesterday (21 Nov), a decrease of 261 from the previous day’s tally. This is our lowest case count since the tightened restrictions kicked in on 27 Sep.

The cases comprise 1,577 infections in the community, 80 in migrant worker dormitories, and 13 imported infections.

Among the local cases are 273 seniors above 60.

6 COVID-19 Fatalities

Sadly, six more COVID-19 cases succumbed to the disease.

Aged between 63 and 95, all of them had various underlying medical conditions.

This brings our death toll to 662.

MOH Closely Monitoring 3 Large Clusters

The Ministry of Health (MOH) is closely monitoring three large clusters with new cases, the largest of which is at Jeanaris Home@ Pelangi Village with 86 infections. 84 residents and two staff members have been infected there.

Three cases were also linked to the cluster at Sunlove Senior Care Centre @ 70 Buangkok View, bringing its total to 18. Of the 18 cases, two are staff, 12 are clients, and four are household members.

The cluster at Pacific Healthcare Nursing Home (6 Lengkok Bahru) also grew to 15, after one more case was added to it. All those infected at the home are residents.

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1,362 COVID-19 Cases in Hospital; 104 in ICU

At the moment, there are 1,362 COVID-19 cases warded in hospitals, most of whom are well and under observation.

186 serious cases require oxygen supplementation and 104 are in the intensive care unit, comprising 44 cases who are unstable and under close monitoring, and 60 who are critically ill and intubated.

Our ICU utilisation rate is currently at 52.9%, which is the lowest since MOH first released information on it on 25 Oct, when the rate was 83.6%.

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 4.7 per 100,000 population respectively.

The same figures for seniors aged 60 and above are 1.8 and 41.8 respectively.

Over the same period, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who died are 0.04 and 0.9 per 100,000 population respectively.

The same figures for seniors aged 60 and above are 0.2 and 10.1 respectively.

Currently, 85% of our population has been fully vaccinated and 86% have received at least one dose. 23% have received their booster shots.

Slight Rise in Weekly Infection Growth Rate

Our weekly infection growth rate has risen slightly to 0.81, from 0.78 on Saturday.

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

It has stayed below 1.0 for nine consecutive days.