Ms He Ting Ru asked the Prime Minister for each month in the last year, how many users have requested to be de-registered from the TraceTogether programme. Mrs Josephine Teo (for the Prime Minister): From January 2021 to April 2022, about 5,900 users or an average of 370 users per month were deregistered from the TraceTogether programmeContinue reading “DATA ON NUMBER OF REQUESTS TO DE-REGISTER FROM TRACETOGETHER PROGRAMME”
Category Archives: Covid-19
PLANS TO ALLOW REOPENING OF FAMILY KTVS AND EXPECTED SAFE MANAGEMENT MEASURES
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Trade and Industry given the recent streamlining of COVID-19 measures (a) what is the status of plans to allow the reopening of family KTVs; and (b) what are the expected safe management measures that will be applied. Mr Gan Kim Yong: The Ministry of Trade and Industry and MinistryContinue reading “PLANS TO ALLOW REOPENING OF FAMILY KTVS AND EXPECTED SAFE MANAGEMENT MEASURES”
PLANS TO ALLOW IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS TO VISIT COVID-19 PATIENTS FOR FINAL FAREWELL
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Health with the relaxation of the five-visitors-per-day rule, whether there are any plans to allow for special dispensation for immediate family members to visit COVID-19 patients for their final farewell. Mr Ong Ye Kung: COVID-19 infected patients who are critically ill are allowed visits by family members, but withContinue reading “PLANS TO ALLOW IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS TO VISIT COVID-19 PATIENTS FOR FINAL FAREWELL”
PLANS FOR RELAXATION OF VACCINATION-DIFFERENTIATED MEASURES AND USE OF TRACETOGETHER DATA
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Health in light of the move to living with COVID-19 as an endemic disease (a) what are the medium-term plans for the relaxation of vaccination-differentiated measures; and (b) whether COVID-19 positive status will be treated differently from other endemic diseases, such as influenza or pneumonia. Assoc Prof JamusContinue reading “PLANS FOR RELAXATION OF VACCINATION-DIFFERENTIATED MEASURES AND USE OF TRACETOGETHER DATA”
POSSIBILITY FOR VOLUNTARY SELECTION OF NUVAXOVID INSTEAD OF MRNA COVID-19 VACCINES
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Health in light of the approval of Novavax’s Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine in Singapore for the national vaccination programme (a) whether there are any plans to allow for voluntary selection of Nuvaxovid as a vaccine, instead of mRNA vaccines; and (b) whether there are any plans to allow forContinue reading “POSSIBILITY FOR VOLUNTARY SELECTION OF NUVAXOVID INSTEAD OF MRNA COVID-19 VACCINES”
NUMBER OF PATIENTS WITH RE-INFECTIONS OF COVID-19 AND SEVERITY OF SUCH CASES
Ms He Ting Ru asked the Minister for Health (a) how many cases of COVID-19 reinfections have been detected in Singapore since November 2021; (b) whether there are any significant differences in healthcare outcomes for re-infected patients in Singapore; (c) what proportion of COVID-19 patients admitted to ICU are re-infected patients; and (d) what is the demographicContinue reading “NUMBER OF PATIENTS WITH RE-INFECTIONS OF COVID-19 AND SEVERITY OF SUCH CASES”
DATA ON RESTRUCTURED HOSPITAL ACTIVATING ADDITIONAL WARDS TO CONTAIN COVID-19 PATIENTS IN LAST THREE MONTHS
Ms He Ting Ru asked the Minister for Health in the last three months (a) how many days did each restructured hospital had to open or activate additional spill-over wards beyond the standard isolation wards to contain patients with COVID-19; and (b) how many patients in total were admitted to these spill-over or contingency wards. Mr OngContinue reading “DATA ON RESTRUCTURED HOSPITAL ACTIVATING ADDITIONAL WARDS TO CONTAIN COVID-19 PATIENTS IN LAST THREE MONTHS”
ENABLE FAMILIES HOLDING FUNERAL WAKES TO SERVE CATERED FOOD AND DRINKS TO VISITORS
Ms Sylvia Lim asked the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment in view of the continuing re-calibration and relaxation of the COVID-19 control measures, whether the Government will enable families holding funeral wakes to serve catered food and drinks to visitors. Ms Grace Fu Hai Yien: Funeral events are not subjected to Vaccination-Differentiated Safe Management Measures to allowContinue reading “ENABLE FAMILIES HOLDING FUNERAL WAKES TO SERVE CATERED FOOD AND DRINKS TO VISITORS”
PLANS FOR SELF-DECLARATION OF COVID-19-POSITIVE STATUS
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Health whether there are plans to allow for the self-declaration of COVID-19 positive status, with appropriate penalties for false declarations, as a means of relieving the burden on general practitioners (GPs) who are currently facing a surge of patients seeking verification of their COVID-19 positive status from theContinue reading “PLANS FOR SELF-DECLARATION OF COVID-19-POSITIVE STATUS”
INCIDENCE OF LONG COVID AMIDST RECOVERED SINGAPOREANS
Ms He Ting Ru asked the Minister for Health in view of the large number of COVID-19 cases who have since recovered from an acute infection (a) whether the Ministry will publish its study on the prevalence and effects of long COVID in Singapore; and (b) whether the Ministry will offer dedicated long COVID clinics orContinue reading “INCIDENCE OF LONG COVID AMIDST RECOVERED SINGAPOREANS”
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