In the last quarter of 2023, Singapore has a large number of people!
On the Internet, a bunch of people share their recent experience of contracting the new crown, and the familiar "blade voice" is back!
Source: NTU
Singapore's health minister, Ong Ye Kung, couldn't sit still. In the past few days, he has issued several warnings to remind the public of the need to guard against the possibility of a new wave of new crown infections and take protective measures.
However, in response to this new round of the epidemic, Singaporeans are really much more indifferent than before.
A new round of epidemic in Singapore is coming?
Netizens posted pictures one after another: I'm hit!
According to official data released by the Singapore Ministry of Health, in the past two weeks, Singapore's single-week new crown cases have exceeded 10,000 for two consecutive weeks!
Source: Ministry of Health, Singapore
After nearly four months of suspension, Singapore's single-week new case data has once again exceeded 10,000 for two consecutive weeks!
However, because Singapore has stopped testing and collecting specific coronavirus data since the beginning of this year, it is only estimated to be infected based on the number of patients with symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections received weekly in clinics and hospitals.
Therefore, there may be some discrepancy between this figure and the real situation.
Source: The Straits Times
However, around us, there are indeed many people who have been "yang" recently.
Some people say that they have finally hit after holding on for nearly four years! Although he turned yin after six days, the degree of discomfort was not any less.
Symptoms such as "blade voice" and "waterfall sweat" are also the same, and they are quite uncomfortable.
Source: Little Red Book@Reginaaa Missing Manchester
Some people also say that they were "two yang" not long ago, and posted a bunch of antigen detector results.
According to the description of this netizen, she did not fall behind with the symptoms of the new crown. Headache, nasal congestion, coughing, body aches... In the case that millions of people in Singapore have been hit at least once, I believe many people feel the same way.
Source: Xiaohongshu netizen @Gongqiaomuer
And the following Guangdong netizen is even more sad...
During the National Day, she came to Singapore for a tour, but she didn't expect to be hit as soon as she got on the plane, and the originally happy holiday turned out to be spent in Singapore in a muddle.
I spent four hours in pain on the plane, and the next day I tossed and turned with two bars.
October 3
At noon, I was a little chilly, and I thought it was the aunt's precursor and didn't care. After 2 p.m. in the taxi, I had a sore throat and thought it was on fire. At 4 o'clock, I drank a large cup of lemon tea and went down the fire, dry mouth, dry nose, sore throat.
On the plane, after eating and drinking two cups at 8 p.m., my whole body began to have a fever, and my lower back and buttocks ached. Back at the hotel, I soaked my feet, rubbed my back, wiped my face, drank hot water, and took a painkiller. Can't sleep and wake up often.
October 4
I woke up with a fever at seven o'clock in the morning, my whole body ached, and I slept again and the fever subsided at 10 o'clock.
Cough, some phlegm, feel sticky mouth, nose is very dry, inhale straight to the heavenly spirit cover. At 5 p.m. again fever, tinnitus, sore throat, sore eyes, headache. Nasal congestion starts around 8 p.m., and around 11 o'clock the nasal congestion headache, eye pain, and head needle prick. Low-grade fever and inability to sleep.
October 5
At 4:30 in the morning, I was so hot that I couldn't sleep, and when I woke up, my aunt came again. It's really raining overnight. After six o'clock in the morning, swallow the blade, rinse your mouth with salt water, and spit out the viscous liquid all the time.
October 6
I woke up in the early morning, I always thought there was phlegm, and I kept rinsing my mouth with salt water and coughing up phlegm. In the morning the throat is swollen and it is difficult to breathe. The small pimple in the throat has been pushed down, and the sides are also red and swollen. There is no way to lie down, only to sit and sleep.
At night, my throat was swollen and sore, I had difficulty breathing, and my head twitched from time to time like a needle prick. Walking on the road, others may think that I have some serious illness. Nasal congestion and runny nose begin at 10:40 p.m.
October 7
When it was almost 7 o'clock in the morning, I felt that my nose and throat were full of phlegm, and I was panicked. But the throat hurts too much to cough it out. I couldn't sleep all morning, and my phlegm was blocked
October 8
In the morning, I rarely slept until more than 10 o'clock, got up to go to the toilet, and made up for sleep until 12:17, my whole body was weak, my hands could not be lifted, and I was trembling when walking. Calf cramps when sleeping.
Symptom statistics: blade throat, needle prick, eye gouging, cement nose, glue phlegm, unbearable pain in the lower back and buttocks, high fever repeatedly, fart, ant bite throat, coughing up blood.
The above content is from the @Chelsea of Xiaohongshu netizens
The new crown has been around for more than three years, but the human body still cannot completely "coexist with the virus".
According to Singapore's official data, an average of more than 110 people needed to be hospitalized or even admitted to the intensive care unit every day last week because of the diagnosis of the new crown!
Among them, more than eighty percent are elderly people aged 60 and above!
Source: Ministry of Health, Singapore
Singapore's Minister of Health, Ong Ye Kung, and local health experts also warned of the recent surge in coronavirus cases.
Singapore Expert: Don't worry for now!
Wang Yikang called on everyone to get vaccinated frequently
The arrival of a new round of epidemics in Singapore, according to the analysis of the authorities, the main strain in the large-scale transmission is the Omicron variant, including the EG.5 and XBB1.16 strains.
Although they are highly transmissible, they are less virulent, so the symptoms of infection are also milder. Therefore, experts say that the public should not be overly worried about this.
Another factor contributing to the recent increase in coronavirus cases in Singapore is the many "exceptional circumstances" that emerged in Singapore in September.
Professor Temaya, President of the Asia-Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Singapore, pointed out that the increase in cross-border footfall in the past month, such as school holidays abroad and international visitors from F1 races, may increase the chance of virus transmission.
As soon as the holiday season comes the Woodlands causeway is crowded, source: mothership
Citing official data from the Global Initiative to Share Influenza Data (GISAID), Temaia said that none of the strains currently circulating in Singapore are new, and while it is possible to avoid the body's immune system, the symptoms caused by it have been widely proven to be not strong.
However, there are exceptions, in order to prevent people from being infected with the virus strain after severe symptoms, Wang Yikang still called on everyone to be vaccinated in time.
At present, Singapore's vaccination rate is declining over time, and the number of vaccinations in a single month has decreased by 70% compared to the beginning of the year. According to the latest statistics, about 17% of Singapore's over-80 population "does not have access to basic protection".
Source: Ministry of Health, Singapore
On October 6, when Wang Yikang attended the opening event of the "Leap Step Rehabilitation Center and Tranquility Rehabilitation Center" at the School of Mental Health, he called on the public not to relax their vigilance.
He said the wave of infections has now emerged, the second since the peak of infections in March-May this year.
Authorities expect more people to fall ill in the coming weeks, at which point hospitalizations are likely to increase and the elderly or infirm should take necessary precautions, such as wearing masks in crowded places, to avoid infection.
Source: 8 Horizons
He also reiterated the importance of regular vaccinations.
He said that the new coronavirus has not become milder (nor more virulent), and people are more resistant to the virus because they have been vaccinated or because they have developed resistance after being diagnosed and cured.
Therefore, he encouraged everyone, especially high-risk groups such as the elderly, to complete the vaccination every year.
Source: Morning Post
Failure to vaccinate in time not only has a greater risk of contracting the new crown, but even after recovery, patients have a greater probability of developing other diseases!
This was recently discovered in a joint study by the Kwongqian School of Medicine of Nanyang Technological University, the Singapore Ministry of Health, the Singapore General Hospital and the National Centre for Communicable Diseases.
Not getting vaccinated or bringing more harm!
Singapore is evaluating the new vaccine
Yesterday, Nanyang Technological University released a statement on its official website with the title: Singapore study finds that unvaccinated COVID survivors are at higher risk of heart complications!
Source: NTU official website
The study was conducted between September and November 2021, and the research institute studied the medical claims records of 106012 new crown patients.
At that time, there were still nearly 1.7 million people in Singapore who had not been infected with the new crown, and the researchers compared these 100,000 people with these 1.7 million people, and after an average of 300 days of follow-up studies, it was found that 912 patients had lingering sequelae after recovery, such as fatigue, shortness of breath, memory problems and heart complications.
Source: NTU report
In addition, there were 311 unvaccinated people who did not have abnormal heartbeats before they were infected with the new crown, but they appeared one year after infection!
Source: The Straits Times
However, the research team also admits that its study has some limitations.
For example, the "uninfected new crown group" in the study may also include those who are asymptomatic or do not seek medical care.
In addition, the problem associated with the risk of heart complications is that the research team did not take into account individual health indicators, such as blood pressure and body mass index, so the results may be somewhat different.
Either way, Lim Jue Tao, a member of the research team and assistant professor of infectious disease modeling at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, said the data was "enough to tell people about the need for vaccinations and boosters." ”
Source: CNA
Although the new coronavirus is not so virulent, vaccine manufacturers have been making other attempts.
Yesterday, Moderna issued a media statement saying that the WHO recently listed the new crown variant EG.5 or "Eris" as a "variant of concern", and Moderna has developed a new version of the monovalent new crown vaccine.
Its clinical trial data shows that the updated version of the vaccine can increase the body's neutralizing antibodies against variants such as Eris, FL.1.5.1 and Pirola by 8.7 times, and can effectively deal with variants that are circulating or expected to circulate.
Source: CBS
Moderna has sent the book to the Singapore Health Sciences Authority for evaluation and expects results soon.
Should we go and get the existing monovalent vaccine immediately, or wait for the updated version of the vaccine, we may start to have headaches again in Singapore?