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An 84-year-old male Singaporean has passed away from complications due to a Covid-19 infection today (Aug. 13).

44th death due to Covid-19 complications

According to the Ministry of Health's evening update, the elderly man had developed symptoms on July 28 and was admitted to National University Hospital on July 29 where he tested positive for Covid-19 infection.

He had not been vaccinated against Covid-19 and had a history of cancer, ischaemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hyperlipidaemia.

In total, 44 have passed away from complications due to Covid-19 infection.

45 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases in S'pore, 13 unlinked

MOH has confirmed 49 new cases of Covid-19 infection in Singapore on Friday (Aug. 13).

This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 66,061.

Of these, 20 are linked to previous cases, and have already been placed on quarantine.

12 are linked to previous cases and were detected through surveillance.

13 are currently unlinked.

Decrease in number of new community cases

Overall, the number of new cases in the community has decreased from 671 cases in the week before to 380 cases in the past week.

The number of unlinked cases in the community has also decreased from 191 cases in the week before to 108 cases in the past week.

The 7-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 38.9 and 15.4 respectively.

Condition of hospitalised cases

488 cases are currently warded in hospital.

There are currently 30 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation, and 10 in critical condition in the ICU.

Seven amongst these 40 cases are fully vaccinated.

Of those who have fallen very ill, 34 are seniors above 60 years, of whom 27 are completely unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.

According to MOH, there is continuing evidence that almost all fully-vaccinated individuals do not suffer serious disease when infected, unless if they had underlying medical conditions  that made them more susceptible.

Over the last 28 days, the percentage of unvaccinated who became severely ill or died is 9.6 per cent, while that for the fully vaccinated is 1.0 per cent.

Three new clusters

There are three new clusters today and six clusters that have closed. There are currently 116 active clusters, ranging between three and 1,151 infections.

Progress of national vaccination programme

As of August 12, MOH have administered a total of 8,286,283 doses of Covid-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme (Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty and Moderna), covering 4,402,608 individuals, with 4,011,715 individuals having completed the full vaccination regimen.

142,966 doses of other vaccines recognised in the World Health Organization’s Emergency Use Listing (WHO EUL) have been administered, covering 82,951 individuals.

In total, 74 per cent of our population has completed their full regime or received two doses of Covid-19 vaccines, and 81 per cent has received at least one dose.

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