Can’t relax restrictions immediately as cases will surge again: Singapore PM

Singapore, November 8

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday mentioned his authorities can’t calm down the present restrictions imposed to include coronavirus as it would improve the probabilities for extra COVID-19 circumstances within the nation.

Singapore has until now reported 58,056 circumstances of coronavirus and 28 deaths associated to it.

“We can’t simply relax the current restrictions and hope that COVID-19 cases will remain low,” mentioned Lee on the People’s Action Party’s (PAP) biennial convention.

Lee mentioned though the COVID-19 scenario is underneath management, the nation has to get right into a place the place it may possibly confidently open up additional.

He additionally identified that it takes political management to influence folks about maintaining security measures in place when the coronavirus case numbers are low.

Lee mentioned Singapore additionally has to maintain refining its safeguards, similar to bettering its contact tracing and testing regimes, to take care of the circumstances that pop up.

“This will allow Singapore to enter Phase 3 without suffering a big second wave of infections, and get back to a more normal life of larger social gatherings and leisure travel,” he mentioned.

Authorities are making ready to calm down measures of the circuit breaker within the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, Singapore reported two imported circumstances on Sunday, who’ve been positioned underneath the keep house discover.

There have been no new circumstances locally or from migrant employee’s dormitories, mentioned the Ministry of Health (MOH).

The seven imported circumstances, reported on Saturday, got here from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, South Korea, Ukraine and Malaysia. They are positioned underneath keep house discover.

Thirty-four confirmed circumstances are at present hospitalised whereas 24 are recuperating in remoted neighborhood services for gentle signs as of Saturday.

With 9 circumstances discharged from hospitals and neighborhood services, 57,968 folks have recovered absolutely from COVID-19, mentioned MOH. PTI