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...
The vast majority of people infected do not become seriously ill.
Most have mild to moderate infections, he noted, but they see him rather than a general practitioner because they have other underlying medical conditions. According to the World Health Organisation, as at April 26, Singapore has reported 2.34 million infections and 1,722 deaths from Covid-19. The high number of Covid-19 infections has also pushed up the number of polyclinic patients with upper respiratory tract infections to more than 3,000 a day for the first three weeks of April. This is more than double the number in the same period last year.
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