The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be working with Singapore’s MOH and update their Travel Health Notice for the country regarding Singapore’s Covid-19 testing data, according to Bloomberg.
The US agency had classified their travel advisory alert for Singapore to Unknown earlier this week, placing us in the same classification as North Korea, Afghanistan, and Syria, to name a few.
The advisory previously advised against traveling to Singapore, citing an “unknown” situation, and said that “even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk”.
The agency had cited a “lack of testing findings for their classification.
This is because they used statistics from the website Our World in Data, which hasn’t been updated since November 2021.
Ong Ye Kung responded
The Singapore Minister of Health, Ong Ye Kung then responded saying that “to be clear, we know our situation very well.”
He then shed light on the positive rates for over 150,000 PCR tests done every week, which is under 2%; and that a very small handful of wastewater testing stations are registering the presence of viral fragments.
He added that the incident of covid-19 in the community is low and stable.