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SINGAPORE – More than 85 per cent of patients with Covid-19 since January have yet to be discharged, remaining in hospital or isolation facilities.
As of Monday, only 13.5 per cent of patients or 3,225 of the 23,787 people infected have recovered and gone home.
21 have died.
Not all those who have yet to be discharged are still sick though. Some have recovered, but are not allowed to go home because they may still transmit the coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, to others.
The National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) said four in five patients become only mildly ill, displaying upper respiratory tract symptoms but no lung infection.
They usually remain sick for about two weeks, but might need almost another fortnight before they stop shedding the virus.
So the majority of patients will be discharged after about four weeks.
Professor Leo Yee Sin, executive director of the NCID said the viral load is higher at the start of illness and declines over the first week.
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