China News Service, May 14th, according to the Singapore Lianhe Zaobao.com, on the 14th local time, the Singapore Ministry of Health stated that there were 752 newly diagnosed new crown cases in the country, with a total of 26098 cases. Experts estimate that the number of new cases in Singapore will continue to be high in the coming weeks.
On April 24 local time, Singapore Changi Exhibition Center was transformed into a "square cabin hospital" where patients with mild symptoms of new coronary pneumonia will be accepted.
According to preliminary statistics from the Ministry of Health, most of the new cases are guest workers living in dormitories, and two others are local citizens or permanent residents.
According to reports, the number of infected groups in Singapore ’s local guest workers ’dormitory and industrial area has exceeded 100, but infectious disease experts pointed out that this does not mean that the epidemic has worsened. It is only the patients who have been infected before.
In addition to the more than 30 guest dormitory dedicated to the infected group, there have been more than 90 infected groups located in industrial areas and construction sites in the past two weeks, many of which are believed to be factory converted dormitories.
However, Liang Haonan, a specialist in infectious diseases at Elizabeth Novena Hospital in Singapore, pointed out that people do not need to be too anxious because of the increasing number of cases and infections, because these so-called "new cases" should have been infected earlier. Diagnosis.
Recently, Singapore ’s Minister of National Development and Minister of Finance Huang Xuncai pointed out that Singapore has tested 32,000 dormitory workers, accounting for about 10% of the group ’s total number of people, and will also test the remaining approximately 290,000 guests living in dormitory Work, to ensure that they have no virus in their body before allowing them to resume work one by one.
According to reports, because there are still about 290,000 guest workers living in dormitories still to be tested for new coronaviruses, experts estimate that daily new cases in the local area will continue to be high in the next few weeks.
Liang Haonan predicts that the number of new cases in the next few weeks will remain at 800 or more per day. He said: "If we estimate from a high position, as many as 60% of the entire group of guest workers will be diagnosed."