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Coronavirus: Two new cases confirmed

Feb 20, 2020
News just in the Ministry of Health has

confirmed

two more

cases

, bringing the total number to 77. Director of medical services at the Ministry of Health, Kenneth Mark, spoke to reporters where he described the current situation in Singapore. I am pleased to share that five more patients. They have fully recovered from Kovac 19 infection and were soon discharged from the hospital today. All 24 have fully recovered and have been released from the hospital. 53 patients are still in hospital, most are stable or improving, however four are in critical condition and remain in the intensive care unit. He will continue to provide the best care to these patients who are still in the hospital, as is unknown.
coronavirus two new cases confirmed
Today, February 17, the Ministry of Health

confirmed

and verified two additional

cases

of Kovat 19 infection in Singapore, one of which was among the group of Singaporeans who were evacuated from Wuhan. on February 9 and one is related to a previous case, the ministry also announced that five more patients were discharged from the hospital in total, 24 have fully recovered. Now we speak with the multimedia journalist Farzana Friday, who is in the Ministry of Health, what can you say? Us on Friday, okay, so Olivia, two more cases of corona virus infections have been confirmed in Singapore, bringing the latest total to 77 cases.
coronavirus two new cases confirmed

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I was joined here today by SD journalist Amit, who said he was now on the report, Timothy, who you've been following. the corner of virus infections since the outbreak, so one of the cases that was revealed today was a year when you were all evacuated from Wuhan on February 9. Can you give more details about that case so that the one-year-old child is there? The first of 134 passengers who were evacuated from Wuhan on February 9 on the second good flight sent to bring Singapore residents and their families back home, were diagnosed with the virus on Sunday and are currently in Kiki Hospital, apart from the 100. pairs also g77 is a 35-year-old Singaporean man with no travel history to China, who is a close contact of case number 50, who is the DBS employee who was the previous case, a Today there are only four people in critical condition in the ICU. that's down from the five cases yesterday and five more cases have been discharged today as well.
coronavirus two new cases confirmed
Okay, so Minister Lawrence, although you mentioned that some people are still leaving home and going to work because they have some symptoms, could you tell us about some of the symptoms that they can look out for, as well as precautions that they can take if they have any symptoms? Definitely some of these symptoms are what we call common respiratory symptoms so they include sore throat runny nose fever cough and the problem with this is a lot of people think you know I've had this vision purpose before and I can go on, but in this period of time, the virus that is circulating is really not a good idea, instead what you should do is consult a doctor. immediately and again an emcee of them, they are not supposed to give you both five days to see if you have any respiratory symptoms and if after seeing that you are still not feeling well, you should go back to the same doctor again to get reassessed and not you should talk to Hope or walk around public spaces or coded areas, okay, so we are seeing a drop in the number of cases in a daily check now, with this lower number of cases, can we expect the end of what is? outbreak or can we expect fewer cases from now on unfortunately no, it's too early to say we just asked them no, but as the experts mentioned, the numbers coming in every week are too small to be meaningful, observe any major trend, so all we can do We hope for the best at this time, but let's not rush to conclusions.
coronavirus two new cases confirmed
Thank you for joining us today. Tim, back in the studio. Olivia. Thank you so much. On Friday, it was the multimedia journalist Farzana on Friday and the journalist Timothy, who will report from the Ministry. Health

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