Singapore confirms 2 Omicron cases; records 662 COVID cases and 4 deaths

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JUST IN: Singapore confirms 2 Omicron cases; records 662 COVID cases and 4 deaths

A masked road marshal directs runners during the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon amid the COVID-19 pandemic at Marina Bay on 4 December, 2021 in Singapore.

Both cases, who arrived from Johannesburg in South Africa, are fully vaccinated, and have mild symptoms of cough and scratchy throat. They were isolated upon their arrival in Singapore on 1 December, and had not interacted in the community, reiterated the ministry.Monday marks the fourth day in a row with less than 1,000 cases reported in the city-state. It is also the 78th day in a row with fatalities from COVID-19 reported in Singapore, with 40 people having succumbed to it last month.

Currently, 850 cases are warded in hospital. Over the last 28 days, of the 48,805 infected individuals, 98.7 per cent had no or mild symptoms.A total of 53 cases are in the intensive care unit – six are unstable and under close monitoring to prevent further deterioration, while 47 are critically ill and intubated.The MOH noted that over the past seven days, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who are critically ill in the ICU are at 0.5 and 3.

Apart from the 763 patients who have died from COVID-19 complications, 15 others who tested positive for the virus were determined to have died from unrelated causes, including three whose deaths were attributed to a heart attack and another four whose deaths were attributed to coronary heart disease.

 

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