Health Minister Ong Ye Kung and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong – both co-chairs on the multi-ministry COVID-19 taskforce – speak at a doorstop interview with media on 20 October, 2021 in Singapore.
When that happens, the number of COVID-19 infections will fall and Singapore can open up socio-economic without cases rising very rapidly, said the co-chair of the multi-ministry COVID-19 taskforce.On the plus side, cases are no longer doubling like in September to early October, Ong noted, adding that cases have stabilised for over two weeks.
Fewer people aged 60 and above who are vaccinated are getting infected too. At its peak in early October, 1,000 vaccinated seniors were reported to be infected with COVID-19 in a day and this has fallen to 279 on Tuesday, Ong noted. "Our 2,000 isolation rooms are 81 per cent filled. Queues have formed for COVID and non-COVID patients needing hospital beds in certain hospitals. We have stood up 207 ICU beds – 71 are occupied by patients who are intubated," Ong said.
Former swabbers are being redeployed as patient care and healthcare assistants, and the government is also tapping on the help of the SG Healthcare Corps, where 2,000 people have signed up and about 800 are ready for deployment.
Of course there r no sign of covid cases falling......u said that the figure doubling till 5000 cases.....but we r not there yet....so wait lah patiently ya.
Being cancer-stricken and begging CPF Board to repay overdue debt; that which in any case cannot be done as the money had been commingled and funneled to private entity Temasek Holdings for Ho Ching to wager on unviable, untenable and ultimately, invariably doomed gambles
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