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The number of daily confirmed Covid-19 cases in dormitories is likely to fall below 100 in three to four weeks’ time, Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, said yesterday.
At the peak of the coronavirus outbreak on April 20, Singapore had a total of 1,426 new cases, of which 1,369 were migrant workers staying in dormitories. In contrast, yesterday saw 383 new cases, of which 381 were migrant workers staying in dormitories.
Prof Teo told The Straits Times that the drop was because measures to stem the spread of the virus in dormitories had been “broadly effective”, pushing the basic reproduction number of the virus, or R0, to 0.5.
An R0 of one means each infected person will spread the disease to one other person every serial interval, which is the duration between successive cases of transmission.
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