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The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed 58 new cases of Covid-19 infection in Singapore as of 12pm on Saturday (Aug. 14).
This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases reported in Singapore to 66,119.
There are 57 new cases of locally transmitted Covid-19 infection.
Of these cases, there are 29 linked cases. These have already been placed on quarantine.
Another 11 linked cases were detected through surveillance.
17 are currently unlinked.
There is one imported case, who was detected and isolated upon arrival in Singapore.
Decrease in number of new community cases
Overall, the number of new cases in the community has decreased from 611 cases in the week before to 377 cases in the past week.
The number of unlinked cases in the community has also decreased from 166 cases in the week before to 101 cases in the past week.
The seven-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 39.4 and 14.4 respectively.
Condition of hospitalised cases
451 cases are currently warded in hospital. There are currently 26 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation, and nine in critical condition in the ICU.
Six amongst these 35 cases are fully vaccinated.
Of those who have fallen very ill, 31 are seniors above 60 years, of whom 25 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 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 9.5 per cent, while that for the fully vaccinated is one per cent.
Three new clusters
There are three new clusters today. One involves staff from Bishan Bus Interchange (nine cases) and one involves staff from Sengkang Bus Interchange (13 cases). Eight clusters have been closed.
There are currently 111 active clusters, ranging between 3 and 1,155 infections.
Progress of national vaccination programme
As of Aug. 13, a total of 8,343,303 doses of Covid-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme (Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty and Moderna) have been administered.
This covers 4,413,484 individuals, with 4,058,584 individuals having completed the full vaccination regimen.
In addition, 145,688 doses of other vaccines recognised in the World Health Organization’s Emergency Use Listing (WHO EUL) have been administered as of Aug. 13, covering 83,327 individuals.
In total, 75 per cent of the Singapore population has received the full regimen or two doses of Covid-19 vaccines, and 81 per cent has received at least one dose.
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