Singapore doesn’t expect surge in Covid-19 cases from travellers from China: Ong Ye Kung

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Singapore doesn’t expect surge in Covid-19 cases from travellers from China: Ong Ye Kung
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Chinese travellers accounted for 5% of all imported cases in the last four weeks of 2022. Read more at straitstimes.com.

– The low number of people coming to Singapore from China so far and contributing to severe cases here, as well as the lack of any new, more virulent variant emerging there, is why Singapore’sThe 38 weekly flights from China as of now bring in 700 to 1,000 travellers a day, which is less than 10 per cent of the pre-Covid-19 number, Mr Ong said in a ministerial statement in Parliament. Any increase in flights will be carefully calibrated, he added.

Singapore has never totally dismantled its pandemic measures, said Mr Ong. Incoming travellers need to be fully vaccinated based on World Health Organisation standards or produce a negative pre-departure test. He said: “Today, the probability of Covid-19 infections leading to severe illnesses or deaths for our population has become very low – comparable to influenza or pneumococcal infections.”

“Hence, with extensive vaccination coverage, we can treat Covid-19 as an endemic disease. Like Influenza, top-line infection numbers should no longer be our preoccupation.”Nevertheless, he warned that things could change as the pandemic is not over.

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