Singapore reports 2,470 new Covid-19 cases; weekly infection growth rate at 0.84
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[SINGAPORE] There were 2,470 new Covid-19 infections reported on Monday (Nov 8), down from 2,553 the day before, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in its daily report.
They comprised 2,307 new cases in the community, 156 in migrant worker dormitories and seven imported cases. The local cases included 355 people above 60 years old.
The weekly infection growth rate was at 0.84 on Monday, up from 0.81 on Sunday. This figure 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.
It is the sixth day in a row that the rate has come in below one since MOH started reporting the figure.
The total number of cases in Singapore now stands at 220,803; 14 people aged between 56 and 98 have died of complications linked to Covid-19. All of them had various underlying medical conditions, said MOH, without elaborating. The new deaths take Singapore's total number of fatalities to 511.
The overall utilisation rate of the intensive care unit (ICU) decreased on Monday at 68.5 per cent, down from 69.9 per cent on Sunday, said MOH.
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