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2,470 COVID-19 Cases Reported on 8 Nov with 14 New Deaths

2021-11-09 , 7:52 am

After what seems like decades, we finally had some good news yesterday.

Since our weekly infection growth rate has hovered around 0.8 to 1.0, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has deemed it safe to ease more COVID-19 restrictions.

From tomorrow (10 Nov), members of the same household will be allowed to dine out together in groups of five. This does not apply to hawker centres and coffee shops, as they are unable to conduct comprehensive vaccination-differentiated safe management measures (VDS) checks on all their diners, MOH said.

Our Vaccinated Travel Lane scheme will also be extended to Finland, Sweden, and Malaysia from 29 Nov, though land travel with Malaysia will not be permitted yet.

That’s not the only good news we received, as our daily caseload remained under 3,000 for two consecutive days.

2,470 New COVID-19 Cases

2,470 new COVID-19 cases were reported yesterday (8 Nov), a decrease of 83 from the previous day’s tally.

The cases comprise 2,307 infections in the community, 156 in migrant worker dormitories, and seven imported infections.

Among the local cases are 355 seniors above 60.

Sadly, many more COVID-19 patients succumbed to the virus.

14 COVID-19 Fatalities

14 more COVID-19 cases passed away from complications, bringing our death toll to 511.

Aged between 56 and 98, all of them had various underlying medical conditions.

MOH Closely Monitoring 5 Large Clusters

MOH is closely monitoring five large clusters with new cases at present, the largest of which is at the Institute of Mental Health. With seven new cases, the cluster has swelled to 397 infections, comprising 371 patients and 26 staff.

One case each was linked to the clusters at Jamiyah Home for the Aged in Tampines and ECON Medicare Centre & Nursing Home, taking their totals to 61 and 37.

The Acacia Home cluster has grown to 44 cases after three more infections were linked to it. 42 residents and two staff members have been infected there.

The last cluster – MWS Nursing Home in Yew Tee – had four more cases linked to it. It now has 14 infections, all of whom are residents.

1,725 COVID-19 Cases in Hospital; 129 in ICU

At the moment, there are 1,725 COVID-19 cases warded in hospitals, most of whom are well and under observation.

301 serious cases require oxygen supplementation and 129 are in the intensive care unit, comprising 62 cases who are unstable and under close monitoring, and 67 who are critically ill and intubated.

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 5.2 per 100,000 population respectively.

The same figures for seniors aged 60 and above are 1.8 and 43.1 respectively.

Over the same period, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who died are 0.1 and 0.9 per 100,000 population respectively.

The same figures for seniors aged 60 and above are 0.4 and 9.4 respectively.

Currently, 85% of our population has been fully vaccinated and 86% have received at least one dose. 18% have received their booster shots.