4 Covid-19 patients in ICU, including one who is partially vaccinated; 1 new cluster detected: MOH
SINGAPORE — One of four Covid-19 patients under intensive care is partially vaccinated, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Wednesday (June 30). All four are above the age of 60.
In its nightly update on the coronavirus situation here, MOH said that there are eight patients who need supplemental oxygen.
They are part of 133 people infected with Covid-19 who are hospitalised.
Three more cases have been linked to the cluster at Changi General Hospital, bringing the tally there to 16.
The three were part of the five locally transmitted cases reported on Wednesday.
The clusters at Block 105 Henderson Crescent as well as the one linked to a 76-year-old Singaporean woman who is a retiree saw an addition of one new case each.
The cluster involving the retiree is a new cluster. She was first detected when she visited the Singapore General Hospital for an unrelated medical condition and was tested for Covid-19 there.
There are now 33 active clusters, each having between three and 91 cases, MOH said.
It added that the following clusters have been closed because no more cases had surfaced for the past two incubation periods:
One linked to a 24-year-old Malaysian man who works at McDonald's at The Woodgrove mall in Woodlands
Another linked to a 65-year-old Singaporean woman who is a homemaker
Rounding up the 16 new cases on Wednesday were 11 imported ones. Of the 11, six were detected upon their arrival in Singapore and five others fell ill during isolation or while serving a stay-home notice.
The total number of infections here is now 62,579.
Overall, the number of new cases in the community has dropped from 98 in the week before to 68 in the past week.
The number of community cases with no known sources of infection has also gone down from 19 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 8.4 and 1.3 respectively,” the ministry said.
VACCINATIONS
MOH said there is “continuing evidence that vaccination helps to prevent serious disease when one gets infected”.
“Over the last 28 days, 24 local cases required oxygen supplementation, were admitted to intensive care units or have died. Twenty are unvaccinated, three are partially vaccinated and one is fully vaccinated (patient was already ill before infection),” MOH said.
Some 5.42 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been given to about 3.32 million people as of Tuesday, the ministry said.
More than 2.1 million people have received their second dose and completed the full vaccination regimen.
