SINGAPORE – Amid a fairly high tally of Covid-19 infections being reported here, the number of people hospitalised has also been climbing over the past eight weeks, since the week of March 5. Between April 23 and 29, 568 people were admitted to hospital, with 15 sent to the intensive care unit (ICU). In the past four weeks, between April...
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In the past four weeks, between April 2 and 29, 47 patients were admitted to the ICU, up from 43 in the first three months of the year. Most have mild to moderate infections, he noted, but they see him rather than a general practitioner because they have other underlying medical conditions. But the number is 20 to 30 per cent higher than in March, and the increase in such infectious diseases has been gradual, its spokesman said.
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