172 COVID-19 Cases Today (19 Jul); 163 Are Community Cases With 106 Linked to Jurong Fishery Port Cluster

No, seriously, you’ve not travelled back in time to 2020.

After all, even in 2020, we didn’t have so many community cases in a day.

As of 12pm today (19 Jul), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 172 new cases of COVID-19 infection.

163 of them are community cases.

Of the 163 locally-transmitted cases, 26 are currently unlinked. 19 cases belong to the KTV cluster, while 106 are linked to the Jurong Fishery Port cluster.

This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 63,245.

Based on yesterday’s number, the number of new cases in the community has increased from 17 cases in the week before to 325 cases in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has also increased from 8 cases in the week before to 31 cases in the past week.

The 7-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 42.0 and 4.4 respectively.

Jurong Fishery Port Cluster and KTV Cluster Are Linked

This afternoon (19 July), Health Minister Ong Ye Kung announced something that we’ve expected: it’s actually linked to the KTV cluster.

According to Mr Ong, both clusters are linked, though it’s unknown whether the index case belongs to the KTV cluster or the Jurong Fishery Port cluster; MOH will release their findings once the studies are completed.

Just like the KTV cluster, MOH has, once again, mounted rings of defence for this cluster.

These are the four rings, as described by Mr Ong in his Facebook post:

1st ring – the 700 workers at JFP. All quarantined, and we have uncovered several cases from them.

2nd ring – over 861 fishmongers, delivery drivers etc who had visited JFP. They have been issued Health Risk Warnings, which require them to undergo PCR tests and isolate themselves until they receive results. We have more or less completed testing and detected 26 cases amongst them. It is a high number.

3rd ring – other stallholders of all other markets. As a precaution, we have sent notifications to these stallholders to get themselves tested. They are scheduled to go to regional screening centres to be tested.

4th ring – residents around the market. We advise the residents living around markets with positive cases to minimise your movements and social interactions. Do your marketing during off-peak hours. The National Environment Agency is setting up wastewater testing in as many locations as practicable, and MOH will be mounting special operations in these estates.

“We are likely to see rising cases in the coming days as we step up efforts to detect them to contain their spread in the community,” MOH has said.

According to Mr Ong, the KTV cluster is “settling down”, but this latest cluster is rising worryingly, because it is seeding cases in various markets, and the communities around them.

As such, please wear your masks. Watch this video to the end and you’d understand the importance of masks:

 

243 Cases in Hospitals; 6,726,540 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Administered

243 cases are currently warded in hospital. Most are well and under observation. There are currently 5 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation, and 1 in critical condition in the intensive care unit (ICU). None amongst these 6 cases is fully vaccinated.

There are currently 29 active clusters, ranging between 3 and 173 infections.

As of 17 July 2021, we have administered a total of 6,726,540, doses of COVID-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme. The total number of doses administered was 6,726,540, covering 4,136,551 individuals. 2,676,171 individuals have completed the full vaccination regimen, consisting of 86,182 recovered persons who received at least one dose and 2,589,989 who received their second dose.

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