[pinkypanther]

The wave of the Covid-19 Omicron strain peaked in late February and is subsiding, falling from a peak seven-day moving average of more than 18,000 daily cases to around 16,000 in the past week, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said.


In a media statement on Friday (March 11), the Ministry of Health (MOH) said that the number of hospitalised cases has also started to fall from a peak of 1,726 to 1,450.

In an update at a press conference held by the national Covid-19 task force, Mr Ong said that the week-on-week infection ratio of new cases has gone down to 0.93, while the reproduction rate is about 1.0 for now.


The hope is that the reduction in daily caseload will continue in the coming days, he added.


“I'm glad that today, there's widespread acceptance by our population — that what is important is not so much the daily caseload, but how that daily caseload translates into hospitalisation and illness severity and then impacts our healthcare system,” he said.

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[Dan]

Polyclinic was introduced to lighten hospital loads but it seems quite the opposite. I was told every case besides common cold and headache is referred to the hospitals emergency dept. Is the minister aware?

[watchfirst9]

Omicron is suppose to be less deadly than Delta. So what happen?
Did they miss something?

or is because too many hidden cases thus virus load higher,
so delay in treatment?