8 COVID-19 Cases Today (11 Dec); 1 Dorm Case But No Community Case

We’re nearly halfway into December, and it appears that everything’s still going smoothly for Singapore, though it’s a tad different today.

Today (11 December 2020), as of 12pm, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 8 new cases of COVID-19 infection.

7 of them are imported cases while 1 is a dorm case.

This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 58,305.

Based on yesterday’s figures, the number of new cases in the community has remained low, with a total of 1 case in the past week, who is linked to a previous case.

And if you’re one who’s hoping that you can gather in groups of eight this Christmas, there might still be hope.

TraceTogether Take-Up Rate Now More Than 60%; Half a Millon More to Phase 3

On 7 Dec 2020, it was reported that Singapore has a takeup rate of 50% for the national TraceTogether programme.

The condition for Singapore entering Phase 3 is to have a 70% TraceTogether takeup rate, a number which requires about a million additional users.

Well, 3 days after that initial report, the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group (SNDGG) clarified that the latest updated figure for TraceTogether participation is “more than 60%”.

It was added that the takeup rate has crossed the 50 per cent mark in Nov 2020.

Singapore’s population count (according to Todayonline) is 5.7 million. In order to hit the vaunted 70%, we need another half a million users to fulfil condition 1 put forward by the multi-ministry task force.

Watch this video to the end to know more about TraceTogether:

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