This issue of reports includes:
1. Coronavirus patients occupy 20% of the hospital's beds, and ICU occupancy rate is 23.5%
2. There are 3700 beds in community treatment facilities at the end of this month
3. The government has recruited about 900 volunteers to support the frontline
4. The number of elderly people has increased, and the number of hospitalized cases has risen again yesterday
03. 5. 370,000 people have been vaccinated with enhancement agents; Professor Liang Yuxin: Maintain immunity with the help of additives
6. The number of new children has increased slightly. Young 1 to young 5 students must check for themselves today
7. Yesterday, 6 deaths were reported
Covid-19 patients occupy 20% of the hospital's beds
00. The Ministry of Health pointed out that in the past few days, the number of new community cases has remained at about 3,000 per day. The doubling rate slowed slightly, from doubling every six to eight days three weeks ago to double every 10 to 12 days now. Despite the slowdown in transmission, it still puts great pressure on the medical system. Medical staff have not had a rest for nearly two years. If it weren't for the high vaccination rate, medical staff would have been more intense.
At present, the vast majority of patients (98.4%) are asymptomatic or mild, 1.3% require oxygen delivery, and 0.1% require ICU monitoring.
About 7% of patients are worried about worsening because they have serious symptoms or have a history of underlying diseases, so they stay in the hospital for observation. At present, hospitalized patients in COVID-19 occupy about 20% of the beds in emergency hospitals and community hospitals.
ICU occupancy rate is 23.5%
ICU ward is mainly occupied by elderly people over 60 years old who have not been vaccinated or have not completed the entire vaccination process. This group accounts for 1.5% of the population of Singapore , but uses two-thirds of the ICU beds. As of October 8, the ICU bed occupancy rate was 23.5%.
Although the authorities have added beds, the occupancy rate of ordinary isolation wards has increased from 62% to 85% from July this year to the present.
In the past three months, the number of patients who tested positive for self-test has increased by eight times. Many of them stayed in the hospital for observation just in case. The waiting time for non-Covid patients to seek help in public hospital emergency departments has been extended by 34%.
isolation beds have increased by 170%
In the past three months, the Ministry of Health has cooperated with public hospitals, community hospitals and private hospitals to increase the number of isolation beds from 900 to 2,500, including 170 ICU beds and 100 ICU backup beds.
In order to cope with the epidemic, the hospital postponed 20% of non-emergency surgeries and follow-up visits; in order to add staff, the hospital rescheduled some medical staff to the front line and recruited some short-term employees.
The Ministry of Health pointed out that since more than 83% of the country's population has completed the full vaccination process, and more than 98% of patients are asymptomatic or mild, the home rehabilitation model is safe and appropriate. Therefore, home rehabilitation is the current default mode.
Community treatment facilities have 3700 beds at the end of this month
However, as the cases increase, the number of elderly patients will also increase. They require close monitoring and home rehabilitation does not apply. Therefore, the Ministry of Health has set up five community treatment facilities in the past two weeks, providing 1,200 beds. By the end of this month, the number of beds in community treatment facilities can be increased to 3,700.
The government has so far convened about 900 volunteers
Due to the lack of staff in medical institutions to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic, the government has so far convened about 900 volunteers to join the frontline anti-epidemic work.
The Ministry of Health issued a statement yesterday (October 8) stating that these volunteers are medical personnel registered with the SG Healthcare Corps or the general public, and are nursing professionals who have the qualifications to register with the Singapore Nursing Bureau but do not serve as nurses.
The authorities will introduce these volunteers to public hospitals and assign them to appropriate positions based on the needs of the hospital and their personal experience and gaps, including working in COVID-19 treatment facilities.
According to the information on the government's convening volunteer website, the staff required include doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, integrated health care specialists, pharmacists, dentists, first aiders, and medical laboratory specialists.
These volunteers will be hired and earned their wages as substitutes staff (locums).
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, you can register at the following website:
https://form.gov.sg/#!/6149f2d27eb74e001278690a
October 8Epidemic report
A new confirmed cases
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A new increase of more than 3,000 for four consecutive days
Now review of the epidemic data reported by the Ministry of Health last night.
reported 3,590 new confirmed cases on October 8, an increase of more than 3,000 for four consecutive days, with a total of 120,454 cases and a total of 120,454 cases, exceeding 120,000.
Among the new cases yesterday, no imported cases were imported from abroad, and they were all local cases, including 765 cases in migrant workers' dormitory.
Age distribution of new local cases yesterday
The age distribution of new local cases yesterday is as follows:
0The age distribution of new local community cases in the past 14 days is as follows:
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00 The total number of severe cases increased by 11
00 pm on October 8, there were 41 people in the ICU intensive care unit, an increase of 1 person from the previous day; 307 people with severe aerobic conditions, an increase of 10 people from the previous day. The age distribution of severe patients with ICU and severe oxygen delivery patients is as follows:
000 patients with oxygen delivery and severe ICU delivery increased by 45 people compared with the previous day, reaching 337 people, exceeding 300; of which 281 people (83%) are elderly people over the sixties.
Singapore has currently opened nearly 200 ICU critical beds for infectious diseases, and 41 are in use.
There are about 1,100 intensive care beds for
backup ICU. However, if these 1,100 ICU beds are forced to be turned on, it will seriously affect the normal operation of the medical system.
Severe patients with oxygen delivery use ordinary isolation wards, do not use ICUs, but use mask ventilators, non-invasive, no artificial airways are required, and no intubation is required.
6 ordinary hospitalized patients
00 Non-oxygen transfusion cases in ordinary isolation wards increased by 19 compared with the previous day, reaching 1216. The distribution by age is as follows:
Among the hospitalized cases in the general isolation ward, 1 child aged 0 to 11 years old was 1 less than the previous day, 95, accounting for 8%.
The number of mild and asymptomatic cases in community treatment/nutrition centers increased by 1,100 to 23,739.
Confirmed patients were discharged from the hospital yesterday, with a total of 7,058 people; 2,304 people recovered from quarantine from the community treatment/nutrition center, with a total of 87,951 people recovered.
deaths increased by 6, with a total of 142 cases.
The number of hospitalizations in ordinary isolation wards in the past 14 days is as follows:
Although the increase in the number of hospitalizations in ordinary wards is relatively small, its absolute number of is high, which will also put pressure on medical resources.
The number of people receiving treatment/isolation in community treatment/nurturing/rehabilitation centers in the past 14 days is as follows:
Slightly decreased in the first two days
The number of new elderly and hospitalized cases rose again yesterday
0The number of new cases over 61 years old (see the figure below) changes are as follows:
On October 8, the total number of new patients over 60 years old was 619, an increase of 12 from the previous day.
The total number of hospitalized patients over 61 years old in the general isolation ward is 794, an increase of 16 from the previous day.
The elderly have a higher risk of becoming severe, especially those without vaccine protection.
As of October 7, more than 600,000 elderly people over 600,000 have received invitations to strengthen the injection from the authorities, and nearly 490,000 people have made appointments for vaccination or have been vaccinated. Starting from October 2, Singapore has begun to invite people aged 50 to 59 to receive enhanced injections.
.37 million people have been vaccinated with the enhancer
As of October 7, 85% of Singapore's population has received at least one dose of vaccine, and 83% have completed the full vaccination process.
Under the national vaccination plan, a total of 4.597,008 people were vaccinated with the Pfizer /Fobitai and Moderna vaccines, with a total of 9.374,827 doses, an increase of 19,195 doses over the previous day, including 14,706 enhanced shots.
A total of 371,953 people have been vaccinated with enhanced injections.
As for other vaccines approved for emergency use by WHO (Science and Sinopharm), a total of 110,169 people were vaccinated, with a dose of 208,934, an increase of 1,789 doses from the previous day, including the first dose, the second dose, the booster injection and the first dose of mRNA vaccine. The second dose was changed to the inactivated vaccine .
Professor Liang Yuxin: Maintaining immunity with the help of additives
National Center for Infectious Diseases Professor Liang Yuxin emphasized on October 7th at the second discussion meeting of the Singapore Health Care and Biomedical Conference that Singaporeans need to receive the third dose of vaccine to strengthen protection against the coronavirus.
She said that Singapore has fewer people infected with the coronavirus, so there is no natural immune protection, so vaccines are very important. At the same time, data shows that Singapore has been vaccinated with elderly people and medical personnel for more than eight months, and there is currently sufficient evidence to show that the vaccine is effective in preventing severe illness.
New cases in the past 28 days
Relationship between severity of the disease and vaccination
In the past 28 days, Singapore has added 49,658 new local cases, of which 48,857 (98.4%) are asymptomatic or mild cases, 659 (1.3%) have been/now severe oxygen delivery, 66 (0.1%) have been/now severe ICU, and a total of 76 (0.2%) have died. Percentage data is rounded.
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According to the Ministry of Health, most oxygen-transmitting cases will become milder after two to five days of oxygen delivery and no longer need oxygen support.
The number of new cases in children increased slightly, and the number of hospitalized cases decreased slightly
Yesterday was the 12th day of primary school students studying at home.
Singapore increased by 4 cases of children aged 0 to 11 yesterday, up 177.
0 The number of patients hospitalized in the ordinary isolation ward aged 0 to 11 is 1 fewer than the previous day, with 95 people.
Primary 1 to primary 5 students must conduct self-check today
Before returning to school on October 11, the school requires all primary 1 to primary 5 students to conduct self-check at home yesterday or today, and report the test results to the Ministry of Education.
If you haven’t done a self-test yesterday, please pay attention.
"Singapore Eye" judges that there are about 200,000 students from Xiaoyi to Xiaowu. With all self-examination, it is very likely that the number of children will increase in the past two days.
6 deaths were reported yesterday
One of them had no history of underlying diseases
Singapore Ministry of Health reported yesterday 6 deaths, three men and three women, aged between 67 and 93 years old, all of whom were Singaporean citizens; 5 of them had a history of underlying diseases and 1 had no known history of underlying diseases. Among the
6 people, 2 were not vaccinated, 3 people partially completed vaccination, and 1 person completed the full vaccination process.
Deaths without a known history of underlying diseases are partially vaccinated.
These 6 deaths occurred on October 6, 1 occurred on October 7, and 3 occurred on October 8.
According to statistics from the Singapore Eye, since the Ministry of Health reported the vaccination of deaths, Singapore has seen a total of 109 cases, with the distribution as follows:
From the perspective of physical health, more than 90% have a history of underlying diseases; from the perspective of vaccination, 28 people completed the full vaccination process, accounting for 25.7%.
These 28 people are elderly people with a history of various underlying diseases, most of whom are elderly people in their 80s and 90s.
overall mortality rate was 0.118%
From January 23, 2020, there were first cases. By October 8, Singapore had a total of 120,454 confirmed cases, of which 142 deaths, and the mortality rate rose from 0.116% the day before to 0.118%.
was decomposed to the community case level, and the mortality rate dropped from 0.269% the day before to 0.266% (see the figure above). The vast majority of community cases are over 60 years old and have basic patients.
On October 8, the overall mortality rate of this wave of epidemic dropped from 0.184% the day before to 0.183%; in contrast, the mortality rate before this wave was 0.058%.In other words, the overall mortality rate of this wave of epidemic is about 3.2 times that of the previous one.
The community cases of this wave of epidemic have so far 105 deaths, and the mortality rate remains at 0.221%, the same as the previous day, which is 24% of the mortality rate of community cases before this wave.
The mortality rate of this wave community case is lower than before this wave. One reason is the protective effect of the vaccine, and the other reason is that the course of the disease has not been fully developed.
In addition, this wave of mainstream virus is delta , which was the original virus last year. Some people believe that Delta is very contagious, but its intensity is lower than the original virus. I hope that the mortality rate of this wave of epidemic can be maintained below the mortality rate of the previous wave. It is too early to say how to develop.
"Singapore Eye" lists confirmed cases, severe cases and deaths since August 18, for example:
We closely monitor the trend of severe cases and deaths in the next two or three weeks.
