Singapore to ramp up plans to handle 5,000 daily new COVID cases: Ong Ye Kung

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Singapore is expected to enter the "fifth doubling cycle" with 3,200 new cases in eight days, said the taskforce co-chair.

With the ramping up of ICU bed capacity and more resources assigned to the home recovery programme at a faster pace, Singapore's healthcare system can cope with 2,000 to 2,500 new cases a day but it will be "quite stretched", Ong said. The exponential rise in infections over a very short period of time during the Preparatory Phase – in place since 19 August – has put Singapore's healthcare system and workers under tremendous pressure, Ong said.Currently, over 40 per cent of new cases go on home recovery, with the proportion rising.

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It was proven that CB or heightened alerts phase 2 works, such as no gatherings, work from home. But if wanted to open up economy, travel, F&B, offices, etc., yes, not possible anymore. Sorry, a bit negative mind.

Bite the bullet. Do a 7 days CB may be useful to break the chain or lessen the chain of infection.

How ignorant/oblivion is MTF?!? This is not part of their endemic strategy clearly!!! Tell us sumthin we do not know! I wonder 4-G leaders are capable/competent!?

Why? Vaccinated, foreign travellers not bringing in, migrant workers not allowed, still what is the reason? Experts say something?

Gee. The PAPSingapore taskforce DID NOT ANTICIPATE this meh? Meh?!

Everything is about sustainability

MMTF is giving up the fight? pandemic win economy trumped human health. So human will go extinct, because human must live and not survive. Also Ah Kung said no more circuitbreaker, to save his face got to sacrifice Singaporean lives, mostly grannies! sporeMOH leehsienloong

Most probably have many asymptomatic people ( likely due to high vaccination)around who do not know they are actually infected until they do self test. And inevitably spread thru socialising and dining hence the high positive cases. Most importantly is the serious cases be Low.

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