The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) recently reclassified their travel advisory alert for Singapore to “unknown” and advised their people against traveling here.
“We know our situation”
Minister of Health Ong Ye Kung has since responded and said that the U.S CDC is not aware of Singapore’s surveillance test numbers.
Ong said during a press conference yesterday that “to be clear, we know our situation very well.
The Ministry of Health is currently communicating with the U.S embassy and U.S CDC to provide them with the date necessary.
Community cases stable
Ong said that Singapore administers over 150,000 PCR tests weekly and that the positive rates for the tests are under 2 percent.
Additionally, Singapore also has about 145 wastewater testing stations across the country.
Ong said that only a very small handful are registering the presence of Covid-19 viral fragments and that the government is “sure that the incidents of Covid-19 in our community is currently low and stable.
Omicron in community
However, he also highlighted that the Omicron variant has already made its way into the community, with about 20 percent of local cases infected with it.
He urged Singaporeans to be prepared for when it starts multiplying quickly.
Ong further added that the Delta wave that hit Singapore late last year has substantially subsided and shows that Singapore has become more resilient and moving closer to living with it.
He said: “This is also the result of everyone’s efforts and our collective will. While cases rose exponentially in many parts of the world, we maintained our discipline, kept our masks on, stuck to our group sizes, got ourselves vaccinated and boosted, and kept our infection levels low.”