“Our fight against COVID-19 has reached a major turning point,” Lee said in a televised speech that was also streamed on Facebook. Singapore said on Thursday it will lift quarantine requirements for all vaccinated travellers from next month, joining a string of countries in Asia moving more firmly toward a “living with the virus” approach. … Read more
Some countries are seeing overwhelmed hospitals again because Omicron is more transmissible and the baseline immunity of the population is still low, Fisher said. Singapore is one of the earliest countries to accept that Omicron is not threatening nationally, because a large proportion of the population is vaccinated, said Professor Dale Fisher, senior consultant at … Read more
According to the latest infection statistics on the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) website, 42 Omicron cases arrived from abroad and three are local. Singapore has reported 195 fresh COVID-19 cases, including 45 Omicron infections, while a cluster of the latest variant was detected at a gym studio in an upmarket shopping centre, according to local … Read more