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While the experts say Singapore has done well in the fight against Covid-19, the pandemic nevertheless pushed up the age-standardised death rate.here since the start of the pandemic in 2020 to June 2024, the Ministry of Health told The Straits Times – a figure that public health experts describe as low.
The MOH gave ST data on Covid-19 deaths in response to questions on the sharp increases in the total number of deaths over the past few years. From 2013 to 2020, the age-standardised death rates fell despite the absolute number of deaths increasing due to Singapore’s ageing population, the spokeswoman said. For example, the age-standardised death rate was 6.1 per 1,000 resident population in 2013, but fell almost year on year to 5.2 per 1,000 resident population in 2020.
But from 2020 to 2022, the age-standardised death rates increased as they were “driven by the Covid-19 pandemic”, she added. In 2022, the increase in the age-standardised death rates was due to three much larger Covid-19 waves driven by the Omicron BA.1/2, BA.4/5 and XBB variants.
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