SINGAPORE, Aug 11 — The number of Covid-19 patients in Singapore who are in intensive care units (ICUs) has risen to 11, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said yesterday (August 10). In addition, there are 32 patients in serious condition who need oxygen support to help them breathe, down from 35 a...
SINGAPORE, Aug 11 — The number of Covid-19 patients in Singapore who are in intensive care units has risen to 11, the Ministry of Health said yesterday .
The eleven patients in intensive care is the highest number in the last 28 days and one more from the day before.Of those who have fallen very ill, 35 are seniors above 60 years old, of whom 29 are completely unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, MoH said. “Over the last 28 days, the percentage of unvaccinated who became severely ill or died is 8.4 per cent, while that for the fully vaccinated is 0.8 per cent,” the ministry added.Earlier in the day, MoH reported that Singapore recorded 53 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, including 15 that are not linked to confirmed cases.As for the 38 cases that were linked, 31 had already been placed under quarantine and seven were detected through surveillance testing.
The number of cases with no known links in the community has also dropped from 238 in the week before to 138 in the past week.
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