Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates
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Please wear mask too to protect everyone especially if we are sick. -
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/first-singapore-volunteers-given-locally-co-developed-covid-19-vaccine-in-trial?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=STFB&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2yYmArtiI4cqkaHl5IeBD3PuX8awZ-Mw3EbVpZsUsx6qNpIQHFEifOEeM#Echobox=1597157194
Something positive to focus on! The trial is in motion and the first cohort of the volunteers have been injected with the locally co-developed covid vaccine. Separately, news report that Putin's daughter has also been injected with vaccine that developed by Russia. In fact, Russia has registered the vaccine and declared it was safe to use and the President's daughter been injected with the vaccine could be a stamp of confidence.
This covid winter has been long and stormy. Luckily, we have been making hay while the sun shined and meanwhile, we can count on the accumulated hay to weather the storm. Despite the positive news and development on viable vaccines, this war is far from over. Our economy already taken a beating and look like it will get worse before getting better. Unfortunately, we do not have a big enough domestic market to support the economy unlike many other countries. Without domestic market, being an open economy is the only way we can survive and prosper. However, we have to shut down along with so many countries in the past months and without a meaningful domestic market, It would be more than miracle if we still expect our economy to do better than many of our peers. We should count our blessing that we have been making hay while the sun has been shining.
We managed to avoid burdening the healthcare system despite chalking up more than 55k cases. This can't be achieved without a well thought out plan. The 'step down' care for healthier patients at the various community facilities have lessen the burden at various hospitals, they in turn, were able to dedicate care to patients with more serious conditions. It is not a fluke that our fatality rate is 27/55000 = 0.0004%. I think this achievement is often conveniently ignored by critics, which is grossly unfair to our front liners who have been battling the virus 24/7 round the clock. Cynics may say it is duty call but duty or not, they put their own life right at the firing line just so that the rest of us can be safe.
Let's hope the vaccine trial is successful. Let's hope more successful vaccines can be developed. Let's hope the sun will shine again soon and we can all go back to making hay and storing more hay. We never know when the next storm, and could be an even more severe one, may hit us. -
Freaky scary...
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/covid-19-china-shenzhen-brazil-chicken-test-positive-coronavirus-13016174
BEIJING: A sample of frozen chicken wings imported into the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen from Brazil has tested positive for coronavirus, the city government said on Thursday (Aug 13), raising fears that contaminated food shipments could cause new outbreaks.
Local disease control centres tested a surface sample taken from the chicken wings as part of routine screenings carried out on meat and seafood imports since June, when a new outbreak in Beijing was linked to the city's Xinfadi wholesale food centre.
The discovery came a day after traces of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 were found on the packaging of frozen shrimp from Ecuador. China has been stepping up screenings at ports amid the concerns over food imports.
Shenzhen's health authorities traced and tested everyone who might have come into contact with potentially contaminated food products, and all results were negative, the city's notice said.
The Brazilian embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
\"It is hard to say at which stage the frozen chicken got infected,\" said a China-based official at a Brazilian meat exporter.
The Shenzhen Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters said the public needed to take precautions to reduce infection risks from imported meat and seafood.
In addition to screening all meat and seafood containers coming into major ports in recent months, China has suspended some meat imports from various origins, including Brazil, since mid-June.
The first cluster of COVID-19 cases was linked to the Huanan seafood market in the city of Wuhan. Initial studies suggested the virus originated in animal products on sale at the market.
Li Fengqin, who heads a microbiology lab at the China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment told reporters in June the possibility of contaminated frozen food causing new infections could not be ruled out.
Viruses can survive up to two years at temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius, but scientists say there is no strong evidence so far the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can spread via frozen food. -
102 new cases as announced around 4.15pm today.
Thankfully, numbers going down day by day at the 100-200-ish mark. -
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Costs and money talks. I dealt with vehicles before and it's expensive to hire additional vehicles for safe distancing.
I just saw a pickup truck 2 days ago, the workers were packed shoulder to shoulder like Pre-Covid days. Not sure whether those cleared of virus are allowed to skip the safety distance??[/quote] -
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We will never know how closely packed they are in private lodging...may be even worse coz it's kinda free for all in those old shophouses, or old private apt.
I don’t have the figures but I think at least half the FWs in SG don’t stay inside dorms and are actually residing in outside premises, usually rental units sourced by their companies in HDBs/old private apartment).
As we can see from the daily MOH report, we have hundreds of FWs residing inside dorms being tested positive on a daily basis VS only a handful for those FWs residing outside of dorms are tested positive.
The govt has admitted that the FWs residing inside dorms are in an environment closely packed (no possibility of social distancing) which helps to spread infectious diseases fast. Covid-19 is not the first epidemic in the dorms, there was an earlier chickenpox epidemic, which is why there’s urgency to test and separate the infected FWs from the healthy ones in order to contain the spread of virus. Not to mention to confine the FWs to the dorms to quarantine them there.
Personally, the main diff is the cluster size....like 1000s for the dorms vs 10s outside. It only takes a couple of the workers to be infected to start a huge cluster in the dorm. Whereas for those living outside, had they stuck to their SHN, if there's no spark, there will be no fire. At that scale, it is more easy to contain.
As for the living condition of the dorms, I don't expect the operators to provide housekeeping svc. Their living quarter should be upkept by the workers....if our 18 yo ns boys can do it, then I believe they should be able to be at least half as good. But, unfortunately, I believe it is a cultural issue, ie, most of them probably came from a very different living condition as what we normally see in SG. Recently, I drove pass Chancery Courts....think it was converted the enbloc condo to house some of them. From the outside, I could see that it was turning into some squatter estate....laundry randomly hung all over the yard/turf area. It is like that one....just like some HDB dwellers think it is ok to hang their laundry at the playground
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Uniqlo S'pore launching quick-drying AIRism mask on Aug. 24 after overwhelming response in Japan
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Hygiene Personality Quiz
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As of yesterday, we have 83 in hospitals, 4030 in community facilities, 27 fatalities since the pandemic and total of 55661 cases. It is a relief that our hospitals are not overwhelmed by the pandemic, bearing in mind that they have their usual patients load to handle regardless of the pandemic. It is not easy to scale up capability in short span of time to cater for the pandemic, it is still early but somehow, our front liners are pulling it off so far. It would be in everyone’s interest that they remain steadfast and resilient and continue to cope with the pandemic in addition of their usual workload. They need to know they have our supports [don mask, maintain safe distancing, TT app, SafeEntry etc] and are appreciative of their effort. A big salute to everyone involved in this fight.
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I wonder what happened to those earlier built isolation facilities
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