As of Saturday noon (24 July), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 133 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore.
This brings the total number of infection cases to 64,054.
There are 127 new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 infection, of which 75 are linked to the Jurong Fishery Port cluster and five belong to the KTV cluster.
Of the 130 cases today, 69 infections were linked to previous cases and have already been placed in quarantine. Twenty-nine were detected through surveillance testing.
29 are currently unlinked.
“Six of the new cases are people above the age of 70 who were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated and are at risk of serious illness”, said MOH.
There are three imported cases, who were placed on stay-home notice or isolated upon arrival. One of these infections were was detected upon arrival in Singapore, while two developed the illness during their stay-home notice or isolation.
The Ministry will share further updates in its press release tonight.
Condition of confirmed cases & progress of national vaccination programme
According to last night’s press release, 447 cases are currently warded in hospital. Most are well and under observation.
There are currently 11 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation, and two in critical condition in the intensive care unit (ICU). None amongst these eight cases is fully vaccinated.
“As of 22 July 2021, we have administered a total of 6,978,317 doses of COVID-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme,” said MOH.
“The total number of doses administered was 6,978,317, covering 4,201,110 individuals. 2,897,480 individuals have completed the full vaccination regimen, consisting of 120,273 recovered persons who received at least one dose and 2,777,207 who received their second dose.”
“In addition, 76,411 doses of Sinovac vaccines were administered as of 22 Jul 2021, covering 65,877 individuals.”
MOH to stop providing details of COVID-19 community cases
As Singapore moves towards a new phase of battling the pandemic, the MOH said in a statement on 29 June that it will no longer disclose details of each new COVID-19 case detected in the community.
“Besides daily numbers, we will include information on the key trends of the local situation, clusters we are monitoring, progress of vaccination and the number of people who suffered a severe form of the disease,” said the Ministry.
According to the MOH, this decision was made by the COVID-19 multi-ministry task force, with a “strong focus on preventing the virus from spreading, vaccinating our population and starting the process to transit to a new normal”.
