Serious No New Covid Clusters In Singapore! Only 69 Active Ones! PAP Is Beating The Shit Out Of Covid19!

[JohnTan]

SINGAPORE: For the first time in more than six weeks, no new COVID-19 cluster was identified in Singapore on Sunday (May 24).

According to data from the Ministry of Health (MOH), the last time there were no new clusters was on Apr 8, a day after the "circuit breaker" period in Singapore began.

Singapore on Sunday reported 548 new COVID-19 cases, taking its total number of coronavirus infections to 31,616. The majority of the cases are foreign workers living in dormitories.

The health ministry's COVID-19 daily press release on Sunday showed that there were a total of 69 active clusters.

S11 Dormitory @ Punggol, which has a residential capacity of 13,000, is the largest cluster in Singapore. Eighty-eight additional cases were linked to S11 on Sunday, taking the total number of COVID-19 infetions linked to the dormitory to 2,679.

Other dormitories with large clusters include Sungei Tengah Lodge with 1,952 cases, Tuas View Dormitory with 1,319 infections and Jurong Penjuru Dormitory with 1,066 cases.

Singapore saw its higest daily number of new COVID-19 clusters on Apr 30. On that day, it reported 12 new clusters, including one at the Institute of Mental Health.

It was also the only time when the daily number of new clusters in Singapore hit double digits.

Since May 19, the number of new COVID-19 clusters reported ranged between one or two locations.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-no-new-cluster-reported-since-april-12765912

 

[eatshitndie]

it's time to celebrate at 69 clusters. it's a sextremely fortuitous number to achieve.

 

[mojito]

Our whole family getting ready for national day parade!

 

[Leongsam]

This shows what an excellent job the PAP is doing.

 

[Sideswipe]

wuhan infections - Taiwan 0.5K, HK 1K, SG 32K.

SG highest paid govt in the world wake up your fucking ideas !

 

[Leongsam]

wuhan infections - Taiwan 0.5K, HK 1K, SG 32K.

SG highest paid govt in the world wake up your fucking ideas !

That's because Singapore has far more testing capacity and can therefore detect a lot more cases. The ability to identify as many cases as possible is an asset not a liability.

 

[myfoot123]

This shows what an excellent job the PAP is doing.

and you believe it. Remember to listen to news tonight.

 

[nirvarq]

Is this real ?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-not-infectious-after-11-days-singapore-study


Covid-19 patients are no longer infectious after 11 days of getting sick even though some may still test positive, according to a new study by infectious disease experts in Singapore.

A positive test “does not equate to infectiousness or viable virus,” a joint research paper by Singapore’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore said. The virus “could not be isolated or cultured after day 11 of illness.”

The paper was based on a study of 73 patents in the city-state.

 

[KuanTi01]

No new cluster but then still 69 active ones and the number of infections rise and rise! Lol. What a spin!

 

[tanahcow]

it's time to celebrate at 69 clusters. it's a sextremely fortuitous number to achieve.

 

[hofmann]

Is this real ?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-not-infectious-after-11-days-singapore-study


Covid-19 patients are no longer infectious after 11 days of getting sick even though some may still test positive, according to a new study by infectious disease experts in Singapore.

A positive test “does not equate to infectiousness or viable virus,” a joint research paper by Singapore’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore said. The virus “could not be isolated or cultured after day 11 of illness.”

The paper was based on a study of 73 patents in the city-state.

If prof tambyah endorses this I will believe it!

 

[JohnTan]

If prof tambyah endorses this I will believe it!

Surely you can't be that foolish to trust a thambi!

 

[batman1]

Record 30,000 +++Covid-19 cases .Still can ownself praise Ownself ?

 

[hofmann]

Surely you can't be that foolish to trust a thambi!

What's wrong dei? Don't be racist ah

 

[nirvarq]

If prof tambyah endorses this I will believe it!

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/covid-19-patients-no-longer-infectious-11-days-after-getting-sick-research-shows

Covid-19 patients no longer infectious 11 days after getting sick, research shows

Singapore now discharges patients only after two swab tests are negative for the virus.ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
PUBLISHED
MAY 23, 2020, 8:32 PM SGT

Salma Khalik
Senior Health Correspondent

SINGAPORE - After 11 days of getting sick, Covid-19 patients no longer pose a risk of spreading the disease - which means they can be safely discharged.
Singapore now discharges patients only after two swab tests are negative for the virus. But a local study has shown that while the patients might test positive, it "does not equate to infectiousness or viable virus". <------------- (actually after 8 days the virus composition itself is dead and cannot be split and appeared 'alive' and they thought it is then non-infectious in truth it was or has never been infectious at all it is not a living thing that can reproduce at all ! The Covid 'virus' is a waste cell or toxin we purge and is never 'alive' not like bacterials that is alive can reproduce and moves by itself. )
That's because the test detects parts of the virus' genome, but is unable to show if they are just fragments of the virus, or if an intact virus is no longer viable and can't infect anyone.

The position paper from Singapore's infectious diseases experts say these new findings allow for revised discharge criteria.

However, the decision on whether to change the discharge criteria has to come from the Ministry of Health (MOH), which was informed of the study results some days ago.

When asked, MOH said: "The Ministry of Health will closely study the position statement and evaluate how we can incorporate the latest evidence on the period of infectivity for persons with Covid-19 into our patient clinical management plan."

It added that Singapore's medical strategy on managing Covid-19 patients is guided by the latest local and international clinical and scientific evidence.

Should MOH accept the evidence from the paper and adopt a time-based discharge, more than 80 per cent of patients could go home after 11 days of illness.

The rest might need longer clinical care because of more severe illness. But they, too, would no longer be infectious after 11 days and no longer require isolation.

The paper was released on Saturday (May 23) by the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and the Academy of Medicine's Chapter of Infectious Disease Physicians.


The chapter represents more than a third of Singapore's 87 infectious diseases doctors from both the public and private sectors.

This conclusion in the paper was based on a multi-centre study of 73 patients here.

Professor Leo Yee Sin, executive director of the NCID, said the study is robust and it is safe to generalise to the entire patient population: "Scientifically, I'm very confident that there is enough evidence that the person is no longer infectious after 11 days."

The only exceptions are patients with weakened immune systems, such as cancer patients receiving chemotherapy or people on immune suppressant drugs following a transplant. In them, the virus might remain viable for a longer period.

Dr Asok Kurup, who chairs the chapter in the academy, is equally confident about the results. The infectious diseases expert in private practice said: "Studies are still going on and we will get more data, but we will see the same thing as there is a great deal of science in this. So there is no need to wait."

The paper also refers to a "small but important study" in Germany of nine patients which found viral shedding from the throat and lung to be very high in the first week. But there was no more shedding by day eight.

When asked why it took three days longer in Singapore, Prof Leo said the researchers here were "very conservative and counted till the very last drop".

The researchers plan to publish the results in an international journal of repute.

(We're beginning to see the Light at the end of the tunnel, just a wee bit, but there it is .... “Hope is the confidence of brighter tomorrows, faith is believing in someone else experiences")