Singapore, Dec 16 (EFE). – Singapore’s Ministry of Health has “strongly” encouraged other people to wear a mask in crowded places amid Covid-19 cases in recent weeks.
The number of Covid-19 cases in the island nation rose to 56,043 between Dec. 3 and Dec. 9, compared with 32,035 cases last week, the ministry said in a statement on Friday.
“To maintain our physical care capacity, the Ministry of Health has been cooperating with public hospitals to plan for emergencies, ensuring good enough staffing, and postponing non-urgent elective categories to maximize bed capacity for urgent cases requiring intensive care,” it adds. .
The JN. 1 variant, a descendant of the Omicron BA. 2. 86 subvariant, accounts for the “vast majority” of cases, according to the ministry.
The recommendation to use a mask comes almost two years after the Asian city-state, which followed a zero-Covid policy at the beginning, began reopening, completing the process over 2022.
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, Singapore had one of the lowest Covid-19 death rates in the world, thanks in part to the partial closure of its borders and strict infection monitoring and social distancing measures.
He reached the endemic level of the disease and his fitness formula was overwhelmed.
A total of 1,933 people have died from Covid-19 in a country of 5. 4 million people since the start of the pandemic, according to data from the World Health Organization.
The country has recorded almost 2.8 million cases, with most of the infections initially concentrated in migrant worker dormitories. EFE
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