Singapore reports 1,101 new COVID-19 cases and 9 deaths; ICU utilisation rate at 56.4%

WEEKLY INFECTION GROWTH RATE

The weekly an infection development rate rose to 0.70 from Wednesday's 0.67. This refers back to the ratio of neighborhood cases for the previous week over the week earlier than.The development rate has remained under 1 for 20 consecutive days. A determine under 1 signifies that the variety of new weekly COVID-19 cases is falling.The day by day case rely on Thursday is down from the 1,324 infections reported on (*9*).Among the new cases, 1,091 are regionally transmitted, comprising 1,050 infections in the neighborhood and 41 cases in migrant staff' dormitories.The remaining 10 are imported cases, MOH mentioned in its day by day replace launched to the media at about 11.05pm.As of Thursday, Singapore has reported 267,150 COVID-19 cases for the reason that begin of the pandemic.Earlier on Thursday, MOH introduced that two passengers who arrived in Singapore from South Africa on a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight had examined "preliminarily positive" for the Omicron COVID-19 variant.Both cases have been remoted upon arrival in Singapore on Dec 1, and had not interacted in the neighborhood, mentioned the ministry.