1 unlinked locally transmitted infection among 10 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore
SINGAPORE — Singapore on Friday (July 9) recorded one new locally transmitted case of Covid-19 that has no links to past infections.
Another nine cases were imported, making a total of 10 new Covid-19 cases confirmed on Friday, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a statement.
The nine imported cases had been placed on stay-home notices or isolated on arrival in Singapore.
Six of them were detected on arrival and three developed the disease while in isolation or while serving a stay-home notice.
The total number of coronavirus infections here is now 62,678.
Overall, the number of new cases in the community has gone down from 46 in the week before to 21 in the past week.
The number of cases with no links in the community has, however, increased from six in the week before to nine in the past week.
“The seven-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 1.7 and 1.3 respectively,” MOH said.
HOSPITALISED PATIENTS
There are 85 Covid-19 patients who are in hospital.
Of these, eight require supplemental oxygen while another two are in critical condition under intensive care.
Both patients under intensive care are aged above 60. One of them is not vaccinated while the other is partially vaccinated.
The eight who need oxygen aid are all not vaccinated. Five of the eight are aged over 60, two are between the ages of 40 and 60, and one is aged between 19 and 39.
“There is continuing evidence that vaccination helps to prevent serious disease when one gets infected,” MOH said.
“Over the last 28 days, 23 local cases required oxygen supplementation, were admitted to intensive care units or passed away. Twenty were unvaccinated, three were partially vaccinated and none was fully vaccinated.”
VACCINATIONS
Some 6.08 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines had been given to about 3.84 million people as of Thursday, the ministry said.
More than 2.24 million people have received their second dose and completed the full vaccination regimen.
