10 COVID-19 Cases Today (2 Jul); 3 are Community Cases with 1 Unlinked

Yesterday (1 July), we were given a glimmer of hope. Health Minister Ong Ye Kung dropped the hint that dine-in rules might ease on 12 July.

Keyword: Might.

As of now, everything is up in the air but things seemed to be looking good with today’s report.

As of 12pm today (2 Jul), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19 infection.

3 of them are community infections, with 1 unlinked. The remaining 7 are imported cases.

This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 62,599.

Overall, the number of new cases in the community has decreased from 92 cases in the week before to 58 cases in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has decreased from 18 cases in the week before to 8 cases in the past week.

The 7-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 7.1 and 1.1 respectively.

COVID-19 Man from Wuhan Who Lied to MOH Claimed He Might Not Have COVID-19

Remember the first few cases last year, whereby one man who was later tested positive for COVID-19 allegedly lied about his whereabouts?

And now, it appears that there’s an update on the ongoing saga.

According to Channel News Asia, Hu, the man involved in the saga, faced a cross-examination on Thursday by Deputy Public Prosecutor Timotheus Koh, during which several notions were uncovered.

For starters, Hu reportedly has a degree in medicine from a university in China, though he went on to operate as a police officer for eight years.

He’s now a financial advisor.

He also admitted that with his academic background, he should’ve been more careful with the COVID-19 disease.

“What we’re dealing with here, COVID-19, is a dangerous disease, do you agree?” asked Mr Koh.

Hu pondered, before agreeing via a Mandarin interpreter.

“You yourself were a victim of this disease,” continued the prosecutor.

But Hu had, for lack of a better phrase, ‘an ace up his sleeve’.

Read the full saga here.

127 Cases in Hospital; 5,485,548 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Administered

127 cases are currently warded in hospital. Most are well and under observation. There are currently 9 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation, and 3 in critical condition in the intensive care unit (ICU).

There are currently 29 active clusters, ranging between 3 and 93 infections.

As of 30 June 2021, we have administered a total of 5,485,548 doses of COVID-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme. The total number of doses administered was 5,485,548, covering 3,376,297 individuals. 2,109,251 individuals have received their second dose and completed the full vaccination regimen.

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