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.
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