Singapore monitoring number of COVID-19 cases in ICU, next 1 to 2 weeks ‘critical’: Lawrence Wong

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SINGAPORE: The health authorities are keeping a close eye on the number of COVID-19 cases in the intensive care unit (ICU) to ensure Singapore’s health system is not overwhelmed, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said on Sunday (Sep 19). There are currently 14 people in the ICU, but this number “can

SINGAPORE: The health authorities are keeping a close eye on the number of COVID-19 cases in the intensive care unit to ensure Singapore’s health system is not overwhelmed, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said on Sunday .

However, he added that Singapore"cannot afford to be complacent" as ICU numbers can change"very quickly". That may seem like a small number, but it can grow very quickly “when it’s applied on a large and exponentially rising base of infected persons,” Mr Wong said.

 

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Let's join Health Minister Ong and his many experts in their prayers to their gods that their gamble will deliver Singapore out of this pandemic. Gods bless our Nation & our people. 🤔😇

Yesterday I went out. Singaporeans and non Singaporeans alike had no worries at all. So life is normal. Let the virus cases grows ……

If you smell what lockdown is cooking

Still waiting for him to apologize for mic debacle in parliament for the “lousy school” comment…all the more so he was the recent moe minister…😷

Hahaha! And all this increase in cases is among the vaccinated. Your country is finished.

Knn so many cases already, still in monitoring mode. What's your contingency plan? Does MTF have any plans in the first place or are you gambling with our lives? Paid millions and this is the kind of ministers we get.

未接種的人,自己多保重。上帝保佑你們。

We are not the complacent ones.MTF are ones clouded by money. Living with covid is like coexisting with bioterrorists . Too much variables and uncertainty. Don't know what the virus will do next. Zero covid should be the way. Such defeatists attitude by low IQ overpaid leaders

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