Over 15% of unvaccinated seniors above 80 land in ICU, compared with 1.8% of vaccinated ones

Singapore

WHILE Singapore has seen a near-five fold increase in daily Covid-19 cases compared with a fortnight ago, the number of serious cases remains low for now, with unvaccinated seniors most at risk of developing severe illness, according to data from the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Friday.

"There is no doubt that if our population had not come forward and vaccinated ourselves in big numbers, we would have seen numerous deaths by now and our healthcare system would probably have been overwhelmed already," Health Minister Ong Ye Kung, who co-chairs Singapore's Covid-19 taskforce, told reporters during a virtual briefing.