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While Covid-19 cases in Singapore have surged past 50,000, only a tiny fraction of those who fell ill – just 128, or 0.3 per cent – have been admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) as of Monday.
Experts said years of investment in healthcare, as well as a well thought out and executed strategy to keep infection numbers low, have helped to ensure the Republic has one of the world’s lowest ICU admission – and fatality – rates from Covid-19.
In the last two weeks, there has been no admission to the ICUs, with the last patient discharged on July 14.
Of those who were in the ICU, more than three quarters, or 98, have fully recovered and been discharged.
Another eight are recovering in general wards in the hospital.
Still, not everyone got well, with 18 patients dying from Covid-19-related reasons while four died of other causes.
Until now, Singapore has had 27 Covid-19-related deaths.
This makes for a case fatality rate of less than 0.1 per cent – an extremely low percentage compared with that of other developed nations.
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