CDA monitoring rise in Covid-19 cases, says periodic waves expected throughout the year
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The Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) is monitoring the rise in Covid-19 cases in Singapore, but said that periodic waves can be expected throughout the year.In a Facebook post on Thursday (May 21), the agency said that 12,700 cases were recorded in the pasCDA monitoring rise in Covid-19 cases, says periodic waves expected throughout the year
The Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) is monitoring the rise in Covid-19 cases in Singapore, but said that periodic waves can be expected throughout the year.In a Facebook post on Thursday (May 21), the agency said that 12,700 cases were recorded in the past week between May 10 and May 16, up from 8,000 cases the previous week.Over the same period, the average number of daily Covid-19 hospitalisations rose from 56 to 73, with one case in Intensive Care Unit daily on average. «The public acute hospitals are able to manage the increase in cases,» said the agency.Periodic waves expectedCovid-19 is an endemic respiratory disease and periodic waves can be expected throughout the year.«There is no indication that the variants circulating locally are more transmissible or cause more severe disease compared to previously circulating variants,» it added.The rise in cases can be attributed to multiple factors including waning population immunity.At the same time, current vaccines available remain effective against the Covid-19 variants that are circulating locally. Read more














