ICU utilisation rate falls to new low of 62%; 3,474 new Covid-19 cases, 7 deaths

[SINGAPORE] The overall intensive care unit (ICU) utilisation rate has fallen to a new low of 62 per cent, down from 63.3 per cent on Tuesday, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in its daily Covid-19 update.

It added that there were 3,474 new Covid-19 infections reported in Singapore on Wednesday (Nov 17), up from 2,069 the day before.

The Covid-19 weekly infection growth rate was at 0.89, slightly up from 0.88 on Tuesday.

The infection growth rate has been below one for five consecutive days.

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

There were seven people aged between 47 and 83 who died of complications linked to Covid-19, MOH said. All of them had various underlying medical conditions, it added, without giving further details.

The latest deaths take the total number of fatalities in Singapore to 619.

Wednesday's new infections comprised 3,320 cases in the community, 144 in migrant worker dormitories and 10 imported cases.

Of the community cases, 401 are seniors aged 60 and above.

The total number of cases in Singapore now stands at 244,815.

THE STRAITS TIMES