68 COVID-19 Cases Today (17 Jul); 60 Are Community Cases With 29 of Them Linked to KTV Cluster

Welcome to mid-July 2021, when community cases are so high, we forget that we once went through days with 0 community case.

As of 12pm today (17 Jul), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 68 new cases of COVID-19 infection.

60 of them are community cases, and 5 are currently unlinked. 29 cases belong to the KTV cluster.

This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 62,981.

Based on yesterday’s number, the number of new cases in the community has increased from 21 cases in the week before to 179 cases in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has also increased from 9 cases in the week before to 20 cases in the past week.

The 7-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 22.7 and 2.9 respectively.

New Growing Clusters Include Jurong Fishery Port, Hong Lim Market & Food Centre & a Hotpot Eatery

One cluster includes the Jurong Fishery Port and the Hong Lim Market and Food Centre, while the other involves Khoi Grill and Hotpot, a hotpot eatery located at 283 Jalan Besar.

A total of 7 positive cases were linked to these two clusters each.

As such, these locations will be closed for deep cleaning.

Contact tracing is underway as well.

The port and the food centre will be closed starting from today to 31 Jul while the hotpot eatery was closed yesterday with its reopening scheduled for 30 Jul.

Read the full article here.

184 Cases in Hospitals; 6,570,666 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Administered

184 cases are currently warded in hospital. Most are well and under observation. There are currently 7 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation, and 1 in critical condition in the intensive care unit (ICU).

There are two new clusters today. In total, there are currently 27 active clusters, ranging between 3 and 120 infections.

As of 15 July 2021, we have administered a total of 6,570,666 doses of COVID-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme. The total number of doses administered was 6,570,666, covering 4,096,705 individuals. 2,545,838 individuals have completed the full vaccination regimen, consisting of 71,877 recovered persons who received at least one dose and 2,473,961 who received their second dose.

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