Chief executive of Northeast Medical Group, Dr Tan Teck Jack, told The Straits Times that one of the eight clinics it operates saw more than 10 positive antigen rapid test cases on Wednesday morning .
Medical director of Parkway Shenton, Dr Edwin Chng, said:"The GP clinics saw much longer queues and an influx of patients with ARI cases."The surge in numbers was probably due to closure of most other clinics during Chinese New Year." "We urge those who are sick to be patient with doctors and clinic staff and also encourage those who have non-urgent conditions to not choke the queue," said Dr Tan.
A sign indicates the cessation of patient registration at a Northeast Medical Group clinic at Sengkang Square on Feb 2, 2022. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAHThe daily community infection rate has been on the rise.Experts ST spoke to said that daily Covid-19 casesBut Associate Professor Jeremy Lim said Singapore has been expecting and preparing for the surge, and added that 99.7 per cent of Covid-19 cases are overwhelmingly asymptomatic or afflicted with very mild symptoms.
This goes without saying. When many clinics are closed there will be a surge at other clinics and ‘some’ will of course have respiratory symptoms. This is a non-story.
With the stupid decision from the gvt to give special rights to « official » covid cases (pcr/art at GPs) & deny these rights to seft-tested covid cases, it DOES make sense to go to GPs even if u have zero symptom. Official covid record means free travel, no quarantine etc.
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