3,481 new Covid-19 cases and 17 deaths; weekly infection growth rate at 0.88

[SINGAPORE] There were 3,481 new Covid-19 infections on Wednesday (Nov 10), up from 3,397 a day earlier, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in its daily report.

The Covid-19 weekly infection growth rate increased slightly to 0.88, up from 0.82 on Tuesday.

The number refers to the ratio of community cases in the past week over the week before. A weekly infection growth rate that is more than one shows that the number of new weekly Covid-19 cases is still increasing.

The infection growth rate has been below one for eight days in a row now.

There were 17 people aged between 65 and 101 who died of complications linked to Covid-19, MOH said.

All of them had various underlying medical conditions, said MOH without giving further details.

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The latest deaths take Singapore's Covid-19 death toll to 540.

The new cases comprised 3,244 cases in the community, 299 in migrant worker dormitories and eight imported cases.

The local cases included 506 people above 60 years old.

The total number of cases in Singapore now stands at 227,681.

The overall utilisation rate of the intensive care unit (ICU) on Wednesday was at 71 per cent, down from 72.4 per cent on Tuesday, said the Health Ministry.

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