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The Ministry of Health (MOH) has reported a total of 3,155 new cases on 21 January 2022 with one fatality.
Case details
Of the 3,155 new cases, 2,794 are local with MOH not reporting the number of cases in the foreign worker dormitories.
The remaining 361 are imported cases.
Of the cases today, 1,539 cases are low risk and detected via ART test.
The 1,539 cases consists of 1,516 local and 23 imported cases.
Today marks the first day where MOH has stopped reporting separately about Omicron variant cases and have included it inside with the total case count.
This is because the bulk of infections now are all Omicron cases.
MOH will also start to report on confirmed cases via PCR test and GP-Protocol 2 cases.
GP-Protocol 2 cases refers to individuals who are well but test positive, or have been diagnosed to by a doctor to have mild conditions.
This will be backdated to 6 January 2022 and therefore there will be a drastic increase in the daily case count.
Weekly infection growth rate
The weekly infection growth rate is now at 2.70, 0.53 more than what was reported on Wednesday when it was at 2.17.
This rate refers to the ratio of community cases of the past week as compared to the week before.
A rate above 1 indicates that weekly cases are on the rise.
Total toll
One fatality reported today brings the death toll in Singapore at 846 and the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic is now at 307,813.
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