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A 90-year-old Singaporean male has passed away from Covid-19 complications on Aug. 17, 2021 said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
45th fatality
He is the 45th person to have have passed away from complications due to Covid-19 infection.
The man developed symptoms on July 29, and was detected when he was tested for Covid-19 as part of MOH's community surveillance testing on Aug. 1.
On Aug. 2, he developed shortness of breath and giddiness, and was conveyed to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he was admitted directly to the ICU for septic shock from Covid-19 pneumonia.
MOH said that he had been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, but was advanced in age and had a history of chronic kidney disease and hypertension.
The ministry also said that 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 1.4 per cent.
56 cases of infection on Aug. 17
The Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed 56 new cases of Covid-19 infection in Singapore as of 12pm on Tuesday (Aug. 17).
This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases reported in Singapore to 66,281.
There are 52 new cases of locally transmitted Covid-19 infection.
Of these cases, there are 38 linked cases, 35 whom have already been placed on quarantine, while three cases were detected through surveillance.
14 are currently unlinked.
In addition, there are four imported cases, who were 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 481 cases in the week before to 322 cases in the past week.
The number of unlinked cases in the community has also decreased from 135 cases in the week before to 91 cases in the past week.
The seven-day moving average number of all linked community cases and all unlinked community cases are 33, and 13 respectively.
Condition of hospitalised cases
404 cases are currently warded in hospital. There are currently 30 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation, and six in critical condition in the ICU.
Of those who have fallen very ill, 31 are seniors above the age of 60, of whom 25 are completely unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.
No new clusters
MOH said there are no new clusters today (Aug. 17). In addition, six clusters have been closed.
There are currently 93 active clusters, ranging between three and 1,155 infections.
Progress of national vaccination programme
As of Aug. 16, a total of 8,464,972 doses of Covid-19 vaccines under the national vaccination programme (Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty and Moderna) have been administered.
This covers 4,440,268 individuals, with 4,155,680 individuals having completed the full vaccination regimen.
In addition, 151,089 doses of other vaccines recognised in the World Health Organization’s Emergency Use Listing (WHO EUL) have been administered as of Aug. 16, covering 83,968 individuals.
In total, 76 per cent of the Singapore population has received the full regimen or two doses of Covid-19 vaccines, and 82 per cent has received at least one dose.
Top image from Tan Tock Seng Hospital/Facebook
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