(CNN) Singapore will extend its Covid-19 restrictions for another month after the megacity- state reported 18 new deaths from the complaint on Wednesday, its loftiest number of the epidemic In a news release Thursday, Singapore’s Ministry of Health said current measures would be extended to November 21, to help contain case figures, which rose by further than on Wednesday “Unfortunately, given the continuing pressures on our healthcare system, further time is demanded for the situation to stabilise,”the ministry said in its statement, adding hospitals were braced for”a sustained, heavy case cargo.”
” (The ministry) is doing whatever we can to support and bolster the hospitals,”the statement said.
Lawrence Wong,co-chair of Singapore’s Covid-19 taskforce, said Wednesday medical staff were”stretched and fatigued “At the current situation, we face considerable threat of the healthcare system being overwhelmed,”he added Singapore had preliminarily blazoned in June it would be abandoning its zero-Covid strategy in favor of a new plan to live with the contagion. The shift was possible thanks to the country’s high vaccination rates, which are among the stylish in the world.
As of October 19, 84 of Singapore’s population had been completely vaccinated against Covid-19, and 85 had entered at least one cure, according to the Ministry of Health.
Still, in late September, Singapore was forced to defer its relaxation of restrictions amid a swell of cases caused by the largely contagious Delta variant The new checks, known as the”Stabilisation Phase”, came into effect on September 27 and were firstly listed to end October 24. Under these measures, social gatherings are limited to a outside of two, and workers are encouraged to stay at home.
The extended restrictions will be reviewed at the two-week mark, the Ministry of Health said, and will be acclimated grounded on the Covid-19 community situation Over the once 28 days,98.7 of original infected cases were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms, and just0.1 had to go into ferocious care (ICU), the news release said.
Of the new coronavirus infections linked Wednesday, 630 were linked to emigrant worker dormitories, the ministry said. The remaining cases were nearly entirely among the original community Singapore’s overall death risk from the epidemic now stands at 264, the ministry said The ministry also advised there were still a high number of infections among unvaccinated citizens over age 60 Over the once 5 days, the number of infections amongst this group equaled 127 per day”, the ministry said, adding elderly citizens over 60 reckoned for two-thirds of the total cases in ICU
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