1,508 new local Covid-19 cases in S'pore, continuing decline since Feb

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Daily Covid-19 cases in Singapore continued to decline, with 1,508 local cases reported on Tuesday (May 3), said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in an update on its website. This was lower than the 3,633 local cases reported last Tuesday (April 26) and the 4,544 on April...

The number of people hospitalised on Tuesday was 240 - unchanged from April 26 and down from 229 on April 19.

It exceeded 1,000 from Feb 7 to March 18, and has since decreased steadily, plunging to below 500 since end-March.The Covid-19 week-on-week infection ratio has been below one since April 23, and stood at 0.72 on Tuesday. It refers to the ratio of community cases in the past week, compared with the week before. A ratio of more than one indicates that the number of new weekly Covid-19 cases is increasing.Of the local cases, 1,351 were detected through antigen rapid tests , which means they were assessed by a doctor to have mild symptoms and to be of low risk.There were 62 new imported cases on Tuesday, of whom 13 were detected through PCR tests and 49 through ARTs.

 

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