Omicron wave: 1,185 new cases reported Jan 19, compared with 589 on Jan 18 - The Independent World News

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Singapore — There were 1,185 Omicron infections among the 1,615 new Covid-19 cases reported in Singapore on Wednesday by the Ministry of Health (MOH). That means Wednesday’s confirmed Omicron cases are more than twice as many as Tuesday’s, when 589 were reported. MOH added that among these confirmed Omicron infections, 965 are local …

. The worker had duties at the transit holding area, where she may have come into contact with transit passengers from countries known to have the Omicron variant.

The speed of the variant’s spread in Singapore has been stunning. As of Dec 10, 2021, Singapore had only detected four other Omicron cases. Those four were all imported.

 

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Of the total 844 deaths, how many have actually died of COVID without underlying co-morbidities? Curious at to what are the pre-existing conditions of all those people who 'died from COVID-19 related complications'? Investigative journalism please.

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