By Ivan Lim
Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN
SINGAPORE: Days after being rated the safest place to be during the COvid-19 pandemic, Singapore has been hit by a sudden jump in new community cases, jolting the authorities to impose new restrictions on citizens’ gatherings and travels of foreigners to the Republic.
Only last week the city-state was lauded in the latest Bloomberg Covid-19 Resilience Ranking as tops in tackling the Coronavirus with local infection cases down to single digits plus and a strict regime of tests, contact tracing and quarantine for entry of foreigners.
A fifth of the 5.7 million residents have also been vaccinated, outdoing New Zealand, Taiwan and Australia. Singaporeans have largely resumed a post-Covid normal of work, leisure and religious activities.
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May 02, 2021
The woman had been warded in Ward 9D from April 14, and was confirmed to have Covid-19 on April 28.
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - An 88-year-old Singaporean woman, who was a Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) patient, died from Covid-19 complications on Saturday (May 1).
The Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Saturday night the woman, case 62573, had been warded in Ward 9D from April 14, and was confirmed to have Covid-19 on April 28.
She had a history of cancer, hypertension, congestive cardiac failure, stroke and hyperlipidaemia.
The National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) has contacted her family.
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SINGAPORE - Singapore is experiencing its worst spate of Covid-19 community infections in close to a year, in a painful reminder of how the virus situation can flare up without warning.
But if contact tracing, testing and quarantine protocols are as effective as before, and people do not let their guard down, the current situation could come under control within the next week or so, experts said.
The recent cases show that nobody can relax, not even for a moment, stressed Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the National University of Singapore s Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. We have seen time and again how countries have had to ramp up restrictions or even reimpose another lockdown after they have opened up, and this scenario could become a reality if we become complacent, he warned.