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Singapore’s recent Covid-19 outbreak is fading, according to a government task force coordinating Singapore’s pandemic response.
The wave driven by the Omicron XBB variant, which averaged 8,000 cases a day at its peak in mid-October, is now averaging less than 4,000 cases a day, according to the Ministry of Health. Singapore’s Ministry of Health said 99.7% of people infected with Covid-19 in the past 4 weeks reported mild or no symptoms.
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Singapore, which has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, will gradually roll out additional boosters of the bivalent vaccine for people aged 18-49 starting Nov. 7, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The process will start in the 40-year-old age group to the initial stage in the 49-year-old age group.
“As an international hub, whenever a very easily transmissible sub-variant emerges, we may be one of the first cities in the world to experience it,” Health Minister Wang Yikang said in a Facebook post announcing the vaccine booster. “Therefore, we cannot be complacent.”
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