3,174 new Covid-19 cases in S’pore; 14 more deaths bring tally to 329

SINGAPORE — Singapore on Monday (Oct 25) logged 3,174 new cases of Covid-19 and 14 more deaths due to complications from the disease.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) said in its nightly update on the coronavirus situation here that there were 107 patients who were unstable and under close monitoring in intensive care units (ICUs) to prevent further deterioration, up from the 97 reported the day before.

In addition, there were 64 patients who were critically ill and intubated in the ICUs, six more than on Sunday.

The number of patients who require oxygen support went down from 278 on Sunday to 261 on Monday.

In total, there are 366 ICU beds, of which 306 are now occupied — with 171 of these occupied by Covid-19 patients.

This means that the ICU utilisation rate is now 83.6 per cent.

Among the new infections recorded on Monday, 2,843 were in the community, 322 were made up of migrant worker dormitory residents and the remaining nine were imported.

The ratio of community cases in the past week compared with the week before stood at 1.18, up slightly from the 1.14 reported on Sunday.

On Monday, there were 457 people above the age of 60 among the community cases, MOH said.

The 14 who died were all aged between 60 and 93.

“All of them had various underlying medical conditions,” MOH said, without giving more details.

In total, 329 people here have died, including 228 this month alone.

LOCAL SITUATION

Singapore has registered a total of 175,818 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic last year.

As of Monday, there were 1,779 Covid-19 patients in hospital, 41 more than the day before.

Among all Covid-19 community cases who have been onboarded or admitted:

• 18,279, or 71.3 per cent of them, were undergoing home recovery

• 4,626 (18 per cent) were in community care facilities

• 1,779 (6.9 per cent) were in hospital, mostly for observation

• 952 (3.7 per cent) were in Covid-19 treatment facilities

Separately, some 2,954 cases were discharged on Monday, of whom 428 were seniors above the age of 60.

MOH said that over the last 28 days, the percentage of local cases who had mild or no symptoms was 98.7 per cent.

During the same period, 0.9 per cent of cases required oxygen aid, 0.1 per cent were unstable and under close monitoring in the ICU and 0.1 per cent were critically ill and intubated in the ICU and 0.2 per cent had died.

CLUSTERS UNDER MONITORING

Among large clusters that are being closely monitored by the ministry, seven had new cases, MOH said on Monday. This was two more clusters compared to Sunday.

A total of 26 new infections were added to these seven large clusters.

VACCINATIONS

MOH said that in the past seven days, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who were critically ill in the ICU was at 0.5 and 4.2 per 100,000 population respectively.

Over the same period, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who died was 0.1 and 0.8 per 100,000 population respectively.

And among seniors aged 60 and above, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who were critically ill in the ICU was 2.3 and 30.1 respectively.

“The number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated seniors who died are 0.4 and 8.0 respectively,” said MOH.

As of Oct 24, 84 per cent of the population have been fully vaccinated, and 85 per cent have received at least one dose.

MOH added that 13 per cent of the population have received their booster shots.

A total of​​ 9,786,082 doses of Covid-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme (Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty and Moderna) have been administered.

In addition, 239,146 doses of other vaccines such as Sinovac that are recognised in the World Health Organization’s Emergency Use Listing have been administered, covering 122,126 individuals.