Spike in deaths here - 878 lives lost to Covid-19 so far in 2022

The coronavirus has claimed 878 lives in Singapore so far in 2022, more than the 828 deaths in the first two years of the pandemic combined, even as a semblance of normality returned to life in the Republic with the easing of Covid-19 restrictions.

- Arvind Jayaram

Singapore has logged 1.89 million cases so far in 2022 alone - a more than six-fold increase from the 279,405 infections seen at the end of 2021, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University based on Ministry of Health (MOH) figures - which experts say is reason enough to remind people not to be complacent.

The spike in Covid-19 numbers follows the lifting of most curbs on while the normal life in Singapore, highly transmissible but less deadly Omicron variant - which was first detected on Nov 24, 2021 spread rapidly.

The good news, however, is that Singapore's current Covid-19 mortality rate of 0.08 per cent is far below the global mortality rate of 1.03 per cent indicating that Singapore has fared better than other countries in managing the disease.