Ministry of Health to Stop Daily COVID-19 Infection Statistic Releases

Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced that it will no longer issue daily media releases on COVID-19 infection statistics, as the current wave of Delta infections subsides. This decision was revealed in the last daily media release on COVID-19 cases on Monday night.

Moving forward, MOH will continue to update the same infection statistics on its website on a daily basis. This includes information on the local COVID-19 situation, hospital capacity, status of COVID-19 patients, vaccination progress, and the number of COVID-19 cases. The public can access this information at https://www.moh.gov.sg/.

One key statistic being monitored by MOH is the week-on-week infection growth ratio. This ratio helps assess how quickly the virus is spreading in the community. As the current wave of infections subsides and numbers stabilize, the ratio is expected to trend towards 1. However, if the ratio were to rise rapidly beyond 1 on a sustained basis, it could indicate the start of a new wave of transmission.

Despite the halt in daily media releases, MOH will continue to issue statements on significant developments such as the Omicron variant. On Monday, MOH confirmed that two imported cases who tested preliminarily positive for Omicron on 2 December are indeed infected with the new variant. A third case was announced to have tested preliminarily positive for Omicron on Sunday.

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