332 COVID-19 Cases Today (7 Sep); 328 are Community Cases / 185 Unlinked

Hoping for numbers to drop? Well, that day won’t be today.

As of 12pm today (7 Sep), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 332 new cases of COVID-19 infection.

328 of them are community infections, with 185 unlinked. The remaining 4 are imported cases. Two were detected upon arrival while the other two developed the illness while in isolation or serving SHN.

Amongst the cases, 4 are seniors above 70 who is unvaccinated and is at risk of serious illness.

Based on yesterday’s number, the number of new cases in the community has increased from 723 cases in the week before to 1,325 cases in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has also increased from 146 cases in the week before to 573 cases in the past week.

The 7-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 107.4 and 81.9 respectively.

New Measures & No Ruling Out Of CB or HAs

In view of the spike in the number of cases, MOH strongly encouraged all individuals to reduce their “non-essential social activities” for the next two weeks. This was especially important for vulnerable elderly residents or those staying with the elderly, it said.

“We should continue to limit our social circle to a small group of regular contacts and limit ourselves to one social gathering a day, whether to another household or in a public place.”

What’s more, from tomorrow (8 Sep), social gatherings and interactions at workplaces will no longer be permitted.

You can read about changes in full here.

On a separate note, very handsome Finance Minister Lawrence Wong also asks Singapore not to “rule out” a second round of Circuit Breaker or heightened alerts should the number of people in ICU skyrocket.

You can read about that here.

637 Cases in Hospital; 6 in ICU

At the moment, there are 637 COVID-19 cases in hospitals, most of whom are well and under observation.

21 severe cases require oxygen supplementation and six are in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

Of these 27 cases, 19 are patients above the age of 60. 12 of them are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.

As of Sunday (5 Sep), 81% of our population has been fully vaccinated, with 83% having received at least one dose.

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