COVID growth rate rises to 2.17; 95% of 1,001 more Omicron cases local

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UPDATE: Singapore's weekly COVID infection growth rate on Thursday rose to 2.17, the highest since 16 Sept last year

. It reached a peak of 3.01 on 30 August last year, according to the Ministry Of Health .The Ministry of Health also confirmed 1,472 new COVID cases, down from 1,615 a day before. It is the fourth day in a row that authorities reported over 1,000 new daily cases.

There was one COVID-19 related death reported on Thursday, bringing the total number of people who have succumbed to the disease here to 845. The MOH did not provide Thursday's overall ICU utilisation rate. Over the last 28 days, of the 11,183 infected individuals, 99.3 per cent had no or mild symptoms.

Among the total population, 88 per cent have done so, while 90 per cent have received at least one dose, and 54 per cent have received their booster shots.

 

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