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02-11-2021, 09:10 AM
Singapore could eventually see about 2,000 Covid-19 deaths a year despite the best possible medical care, most of whom will be the elderly and those already unwell.
On it's part, the Government seeks to use a combination of high vaccination rates, booster jabs and natural immunity from mild infections to stop the disease from spreading as an epidemic here, said Senior Minister of State for Health Janil Puthucheary.
Dr Janil yesterday said Singapore's Covid-19 death rate is one of the lowest in the world at 0.2 per cent, compared with 3 per cent or higher in countries that experienced a surge in cases before vaccination. The Republic has seen 421 death so far.
This rate of 0.2 per cent is comparable with catching pneumonia, he told Parliament. Every year before the pandemic, about 4,000 patients would die as a result of influenza, viral pneumonia and other respiratory diseases....
Part of an article found in today's The New Paper
On it's part, the Government seeks to use a combination of high vaccination rates, booster jabs and natural immunity from mild infections to stop the disease from spreading as an epidemic here, said Senior Minister of State for Health Janil Puthucheary.
Dr Janil yesterday said Singapore's Covid-19 death rate is one of the lowest in the world at 0.2 per cent, compared with 3 per cent or higher in countries that experienced a surge in cases before vaccination. The Republic has seen 421 death so far.
This rate of 0.2 per cent is comparable with catching pneumonia, he told Parliament. Every year before the pandemic, about 4,000 patients would die as a result of influenza, viral pneumonia and other respiratory diseases....
Part of an article found in today's The New Paper
