News Highlights

2nd Sep 2021

Update on vaccination progress

1.     As of 1 September 2021, we have administered a total of 8,735,507 doses of COVID-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme (Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty and Moderna), covering 4,518,968 individuals, with 4,336,867 individuals having completed the full vaccination regimen.

2.     In addition, 168,484 doses of other vaccines recognised in the World Health Organization’s Emergency Use Listing (WHO EUL) have been administered as of 1 September 2021, covering 85,860 individuals. In total, 80% of our population has completed their full regimen/ received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines, and 83% 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

Condition of hospitalised cases

3.     528 cases are currently warded in hospital. There are currently 27 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation, and 5 in critical condition in the ICU. Of those who have fallen very ill, 22 are seniors above 60 years, of whom 12 are completely unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.

Figure 4: Number of Active Cases in ICU or Requiring Oxygen Supplementation

Figure 5: 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 8.2%, while that for the fully vaccinated is 1.1%.

Figure 6: Local Cases in the Last 28 Days by Vaccination Status & Severity of Condition[4]

Figure 7: Deaths and Active Cases in ICU or Requiring Oxygen Supplementation, by Vaccination Status

Locally transmitted COVID-19 cases

5.     There are 187 cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 infection today. 56 are linked to previous cases, and have already been placed on quarantine. 18 are linked to previous cases and were detected through surveillance. 113 are currently unlinked.

6.     There are 4 imported cases, who have already been placed on Stay-Home Notice (SHN) or isolated upon arrival in Singapore. In total, there are 191 new cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore today.

Figure 8: 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 increased from 405 cases in the week before to 922 cases in the past week. The number of unlinked cases in the community has also increased from 118 cases in the week before to 332 cases in the past week. The 7-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 84.3 and 47.4 respectively.

Figure 9: 7 Day Moving Average Number of Community Unlinked and Linked Cases[5]

Figure 10: 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 4 imported cases. Of these, 1 was detected upon arrival in Singapore, while 3 developed the illness during SHN or isolation.

Figure 11: Number of Imported Cases by Detected Upon Arrival/ Detected during SHN or Isolation

Active clusters under monitoring

9.     There are no new clusters today, and 3 clusters have closed. There are currently 65 clusters, ranging between 3 and 1,155 infections.

Figure 12: Number of Active Clusters

Figure 13: List of Active Clusters

MINISTRY OF HEALTH

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