3, compared to an average of 300 cases a month earlier. The South Asian country reported a daily average of about 500 cases during the week of Oct. Over 90% of Singapore's population has received two doses of a COVID vaccine, and 79% have received at least one booster.īangladesh is also reporting a small uptick in cases, though reported numbers are smaller than Singapore's. ![]() Hospitalizations in Singapore have increased alongside the rise in cases, yet deaths remain low, with fewer than a dozen recorded in the country over the past week. The health ministry did start doling out Moderna's Omicron booster on Tuesday, three days ahead of schedule, citing rising infections caused by the new "XBB Omicron subvariant." "If you start to see 50% getting it a second time, you're going to have a wave,” he said. On Monday, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung noted that only 15% of the country's recent COVID cases were reinfections. Officials in Singapore, which is scaling back its last remaining COVID restrictions to reopen to the rest of the world, are not yet concerned about the increase in cases. ![]() The latter has recorded a daily average of about 5,500 cases over the past week, compared to a daily average of 2,000 cases a month ago. ![]() The XBB strain is causing a small surge in cases in countries like Bangladesh and Singapore. New variants of the rapidly mutating coronavirus are still popping up around the world, and a new iteration of COVID on the rise in Asia may be the most immune-evasive yet.
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