News Highlights

11th Aug 2021

Update on vaccination progress

     As of 10 August 2021, we have administered a total of 8,193,151 doses of COVID-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme (Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty and Moderna), covering 4,383,631 individuals, with 3,936,162 individuals having completed the full vaccination regimen. In addition, 138,879 doses of other vaccines recognised in the World Health Organization’s Emergency Use Listing (WHO EUL) have been administered as of 10 August 2021, covering 82,406 individuals. In total, 72% of our population has completed their full regimen/ received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines, and 81% has received at least one dose.

Figure 1: Percentage of Total Population who Received At Least First Dose [1] and Completed Full Regimen[2] of NVP and WHO EUL Vaccines[3]

Figure 2: Percentage of Vaccinated Individuals who Received At Least First Dose of NVP and WHO EUL Vaccines by Age Group

Figure 3: Percentage of Individuals who Completed Full Regimen of NVP and WHO EUL Vaccines by Age Group

Figure 4: Total number of doses administered

Condition of hospitalised cases

2.     508 cases are currently warded in hospital. There are currently 35 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation, and 8 in critical condition in the ICU. 7 amongst these 43 cases are fully vaccinated. Of those who have fallen very ill, 36 are seniors above 60 years, of whom 29 are completely unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.  

3.     Case 66910, a 69 year-old male Singaporean, has passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection on 11 August 2021. He had developed symptoms on 28 July, and was admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital on 29 July where he tested positive for COVID-19 infection. He had not been vaccinated against COVID-19, and had a history of stroke, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia. In total, 43 have passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection.

Figure 5: Number of Active Cases in ICU or Requiring Oxygen Supplementation

Figure 6: Deaths and Active Cases in ICU or Requiring Oxygen Supplementation, by Age Group

4.     There is continuing evidence that almost all fully-vaccinated individuals do not suffer serious disease when infected, unless if they had underlying medical conditions that made them more susceptible. Over the last 28 days, the percentage of unvaccinated who became severely ill or died is 8.7%, while that for the fully vaccinated is 0.9%.

Figure 7: Local Cases in the Last 28 Days by Vaccination Status & Severity of Condition[4]

Figure 8: Deaths and Active Cases in ICU or Requiring Oxygen Supplementation, by Vaccination Status

Locally transmitted COVID-19 cases

5.     There are 61 cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 infection today. 33 are linked to previous cases, and have already been placed on quarantine. 11 are linked to previous cases and were detected through surveillance. 17 are currently unlinked.

6.     There are 2 imported cases, have already been placed on Stay-Home Notice (SHN) or isolated upon arrival in Singapore. In total, there are 63 new cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore today.

Figure 9: Number of Local Unlinked Cases and Linked Cases by Already Quarantined/ Detected through Surveillance [5]

Summary of trends for local cases

7.     Overall, the number of new cases in the community has decreased from 758 cases in the week before to 448 cases in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has also decreased from 227 cases in the week before to 129 cases in the past week. The 7-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 45.6 and 18.4 respectively.

Figure 10: 7 Day Moving Average Number of Community Unlinked and Linked Cases⁵

Figure 11: Local Cases in the Last 14 Days by Age Group and Vaccination Status

Summary of trends for imported cases

8.     There are a total of 2 imported cases today, who have already been placed on Stay-Home Notice (SHN) or isolated upon arrival in Singapore. Both were detected upon arrival in Singapore.

Figure 12: Number of Imported Cases by Detected Upon Arrival/ Detected during SHN or Isolation

Active clusters under monitoring

9.     There are 3 new clusters today. There are currently 118 active clusters, ranging between 3 and 1,151 infections.

Figure 13: Number of Active Clusters

Figure 14: List of Active Clusters

* Yuhua Market & Hawker Centre is currently linked to this cluster.

10.     Please refer to MOH’s daily Situation Report (www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/situation-report) for details.

MINISTRY OF HEALTH

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