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| The accident and emergency (A&E) department at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore, in a photo posted on Sep 19, 2021. (Photo by= Tan Tock Seng Hospital/ Facebook) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] SINGAPORE: Singapore on Friday (Dec 24) reported no deaths from COVID-19 for the first time in more than three months. This comes as the daily numbers of community cases in December have fallen from the peaks in November.
With no new deaths reported on Friday, the country's death toll from coronavirus complications stood at 820. The last time there were no fatalities from the virus was on Sep 19, when the death toll was 60. Since then, as cases rose exponentially, the daily number of people who died went up as well. The Government has dated the start of the current wave of infections to Aug 23. That month, there were several community clusters, including at places providing essential services, such as bus interchanges.
Singapore was then in its preparatory stage of transitioning to a "COVID-19 resilient" nation. This involved opening up further with vaccination-differentiated measures as more people became vaccinated against the disease. A high of 18 virus-related deaths were reported in August, with total daily infections hovering between 100 and 200 in the last week of the month. But the wave had not crested yet.
