-
In a Straits Times report dated 15 Dec 202, it was established that 47 per cent of migrant workers in S'pore dorms have had a Covid-19 infection.
There are about 323,000 dormitory dwellers in Singapore.
Almost half of the migrant workers living in dormitories have had a Covid-19 infection, the authorities said on Monday (Dec 14, 2020) in a joint statement made by MOH and MOM.
As of Sunday (Dec 13, 2020), 54,505 such workers have tested positive for the virus via a polymerase chain reaction or PCR test.
Another 98,289 had a positive result from a serology test, which checks for a previous infection.
This means 152,794 workers in dorms have tested positive in PCR or serology tests or both.
They form 47 per cent of the 323,000 dormitory dwellers in Singapore, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in a joint statement.
The ministries added that serology tests for about 65,000 workers in dorms who had not taken them before were still being carried out. "This will give us the full picture of the infection prevalence among our migrant workers," they said.
PCR tests are used to diagnose current or new infections.
Serology tests identify those who have been infected in the past, by detecting the presence of Covid-19 antibodies in blood samples.
Question:
WHY IS THE 152,794 Cases of Infections not included in the Overall Total Count for COVID-19 Infections in Singapore?LIPS
Very simple, they r consider Aliens, they mati their bziness eh sai boh?
ReplyDelete82,860 cases in Singapore as reported by CNA and Todayonline. This shows that the SPH reporters and editors are either sleeping or not thinking.
ReplyDeleteWith this kind of unprofessional journalism, how not the SPH failed miserably?
Only know how to take umbrage until there is no more thinking editors in the few news outlets under SPH.
A paper general sunk two flagships of Singapore painstakingly built up by the old guards over long years of hardships and hardworking efforts. This proves that all the PAP paper generals are good for nothing, except displaying a false facet of looking-good acting.
Singapore happily registered record high of 1650 cases on Thursday, as reported by MOH on Friday. Three more old men died of COVID-19 and the number of clusters have increased to more than 120, with 12 clusters under active monitoring and tracing.
ReplyDeleteUnder the new Hell Minister, Singaporeans are now experiencing Hellish conditions, with all hospitals becoming overcrowded very fast, turning into battlefields once again.
Credits for such Hellish experiences must go to the new Hell Minister and the Multi-Millionaire Members of the PAP.
This is a very difficult question to answer about the 152,704 dorm infections not in the statistics. So, now all the information is slowly being removed from the MOH website as well. No relevant information means no questions, right? Keep Singaporean ignorant and the virus will just go away like magic.
ReplyDeleteThe most sinister thing now happening is the attempt to get Singaporeans mentally prepared for a tsunami by upgrading figures from expected 2000 to 3200 and now to the expectation of having medical facilities for 5000. Remember, this is a moving target and will just continue to rise.
Now, it looks like tightening is on the cards with circuit breaking the next change if the situations deteriorates. The situations seems to be changing like the weather and is quite similar to fortune telling. We have taken a wrong turn and we do not know whether there is a cliff just ahead. Just hope and pray we do not fall off the edge.
Be careful with that token. Unknowingly walking past a monitoring station outside a shop triggers a beep on your token, although you did not enter the shop, and that puts you into trouble for nothing. Best is avoid such places or move as far away as possible.
ReplyDeleteSingapore is indeed a very dangerous place to be nowadays.
We are having a very unsatisfactory situation in Singapore due in part to the 61.24%.
ReplyDeleteRight Virgo 10.15
ReplyDeleteWith all the monitoring and segregation of vaccinated and unvaccinated, which category are the major spreaders is being kept silent.
With all the tests - PCR, ART, PET they left so many other loopholes for the virus to spread like in your situation. That is why all the unlinked cases are popping up fast and furious. So many unlinked cases that they have stopped counting and reporting. They are just Waiting for it to end like magic? It does look like we are in a 'patch and pray' situation or PAP for short.
Record 1,650 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Singapore on Friday (Sept 24), 3 died.
ReplyDeleteDeaths accepted for reopening.
"We may seem like we are trailing some European countries, which are or have reopened and are living lives quite normally," he observed. "But remember, they paid a huge price in human lives - mostly last year - which we will do whatever we can to minimise." Ong Ye Kung, ST Sept 25
The millionaire politicians like to use numbers and statistics. Now they simply shoot out numbers like 2,000 cases a day, 3,200 and even 5,000 cases. Did they know what these numbers meant or how serious they are?
ReplyDeleteWhen India was facing its worse days, there were 400,000 cases daily. And India was like a hell hole. 400,000 in a population of 1.3b or about 220 times that of Spore.
2,000 cases in Spore, pop 6m, is equivalent of 440,000 cases in India.
3,200 cases would be 704,000.
5,000 cases would be 1,110,000 in India.
What would happen to Spore if we hit these numbers?
"MTF live in landed homes, drive their own cars everywhere, mingle only among their elite social bubbles & hold virtual MPS. Easy for them to shift responsibility to the people when they are protected from the delta virus spreading unstoppably islandwide.
ReplyDeleteMajority of the people use buses & MRT with zero distancing, live in HDB flats & use common elevators, lobbies & staircases. Now the useless MTF is not managing covid community spread but managing expectations – telling citizens to expect more than 1000 cases daily. Surely taxpayers expect more when these Ministers each receive million $ paychecks??? Asking vaxxed patients below 60yo to recover on their own home is the last straw."
qtg Willaim Choo - TRE
Right RB 2.53
ReplyDeleteI was also thinking that with Singapore's small population, 2,000 infections a day is already in the league of India during the days of their COVID19 tsunami.
At 5,000 it is mind boggling and would translate into more than a million infections a day if we had India's population size. I guess to them, they can always import more foreigners to replace those who died. That nasty guy is talking about 5,000 infections a day as if it is a small irritant. How did we end up like this?.
What is the irrelevant purpose of MOH publishing map of areas most visited by COVID18? It serves no useful purpose whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteBetter to do temperature taking.save more then doing swap test.really making live more complicated..just to advoid responsiblities.tai chi masters.
ReplyDeleteI think the hysteria about reopening Singapore, voiced by some, is really out of place.
ReplyDelete🔴 There's no alternative at this point.
Last year was different - the whole world was looking for a solution and it was found in the vaccines. But, first of all, no vaccine offers complete immunity and, secondly, quickly mutating viruses are always going to pose challenges to vaccine development.
This is why, for example, we have new flu jabs every year, because new strains emerge all the time.
Given that there are no new, miracle solutions coming, that could somehow wipe the virus out completely, and that vast majority of the population in Singapore is vaccinated, the only thing to do is to return to normal life - albeit responsibly.
No country can be on lockdown forever and zero-Covid strategies are untenable, because the virus is transmitted very easily. Not even North Korea was able to keep it out.
A change in mindset is needed.
Over the past 18 months people have been conditioned to react to relatively high infection figures with fear. It was justified in 2020 but not today.
The figures that need to be tracked are deaths and ICU hospitalizations, signifying severity of the virus (both compared against the vaccination status of the patients too - as we know it's the unvaccinated who are the most affected at this point).
So far only 73 people died of COVID in Singapore. This is less than 100+ who die in traffic accidents every year or an average of about 800 who die of regular flu.
We also have to remember that many of the patients that passed away due to COVID would have likely fallen prey to influenza or other common viruses, due to their already weakened state. In international statistics, the novel coronavirus pretty much wiped out flu as a cause of death in countries around the world (even though, of course, it is also responsible for a large number of excess deaths - but not in Singapore).
In other words, so far the death toll of C19 for the year and a half since the outbreak started in SG is on par with an average MONTH of flu deaths in a regular year.
Of course both viruses are different and Covid may impact even younger, healthier people more severely. Nevertheless, we have to maintain a sense of proportion.
Even at this point Singapore is doing many times better than comparable developed countries attempting large scale reopening.
In terms of death toll it is orders of magnitude better than most countries, in fact. Western nations lost anywhere between 1500 to 3000 people for 1 million inhabitants. In Singapore that figure is just 12-13 - easily over 100 times less.
As for patients in ICU, it's currently ca. 4 per million inhabitants - compared to 70 in the US, around 30 in Israel, France or Switzerland, 20 in countries like Germany, Belgium or Canada.
🔴 Considering that during previous waves this figure peaked around the world at anywhere between 60 to 120, SG still has a long way to go before it can start getting worried.
Since all that could have been done, has been done, it's now time to return to normal - however responsible - life, instead of expecting new lockdowns that threaten thousands of livelihoods.
There were also 19 imported cases, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in an update released to the media at about 11pm.
ReplyDeletetruth is firefighting with kerosene.
They bark the orders people do.
They are not the nurses or doctors who tends to the sick.
they are businessman cunning at that in a politicians suit..
Why after all this while cannot understand or dont want to understand.??????????