SINGAPORE - Two new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) were confirmed by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Wednesday (Feb 26) and four others have recovered and were discharged. This brings the total number of cases here to 93, of which 62 have fully recovered. Case 59, the private hospital doctor, was among the four discharged. The 61-year-old Singaporean was confirmed to have the virus on Feb 13 and had been warded at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases. He is not linked to any of the five known clusters but is a non-medical contact of case 72, a 40-year-old man from China who holds a Singapore work pass. Case 56, a Bangladeshi national, was also discharged. The 30-year-old is the first to be discharged out of the five Bangladeshi work pass holders linked to a cluster in a Seletar work site. Last week, the Bangladesh High Commission confirmed that one of the other four workers - case 42 - was in critical condition. Two patients from the Grace Assembly of God cluster, cases 49 and 73, were also discharged. The ministry said most of the 31 patients still in hospital are in stable condition or improving, but seven are in critical condition in the intensive care unit. The new cases include two Singaporean men who do not have any recent travel history to China. https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...rmed-with-no-previous-links-4-more-discharged
THANKS!!! That's an interesting bit of stat's there, very interesting, that's why LOCK DOWN's and Bla Bla Bla Bla, this is MUCH MUCH worse then there claiming. Only affecting old people, that's BS aswell! Somewhere between 30% and 7% require hospital care and would without therefore likely die, which was my original estimate. NHS in the UK is literally on it's knees, patients backed up in corridors, if this hit here, no way they'll be able to treat a mass out break, few 100nds maybe, 10,000 not a chance.
I hope the US and CDC are as prepared and thorough as Singapore when the epidemic hits California. We tend to talk a good story but usually ill prepared. https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/27...he-scope-of-undetected-u-s-spread-is-unknown/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...es-as-litmus-test-for-coronavirus-containment As the novel coronavirus starts to gather speed in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S., there’s one place it is seemingly being contained: Singapore. With no reported virus-related deaths despite 96 cases, and a slowing rate of infection that’s been outpaced by recoveries, the Asian city-state is emerging as a litmus test of whether the deadly pathogen can be, if not contained, then neutralized. The answer is maybe, and perhaps only with the unique combination of factors that Singapore brings: a top-notch health system, draconian tracing and containment measures, and a small population that’s largely accepting of government’s expansive orders. Few other countries battling an outbreak that’s now infected more than 83,000 globally and killed over 2,800, can replicate these circumstances. Singapore’s tally of cases is still inching up but it’s no longer the worst-hit nation outside of China after South Korea saw an over 30-fold increase in a week. Italy, with at least 650 confirmed cases, has now become the epicenter in Europe while Iran has reported an alarming jump in numbers of those infected and dead. “There seems to be more of a willingness to place the community and society needs over individual liberty and that helps in a public health crisis,” said Kent Sepkowitz, an infectious disease control specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Hard to do in a free wheeling society like the US. Perhaps we in the west don't give the Chinese enough credit for taking such drastic measures. China seems to slowly get their situation under control in spite of criticisms from us.