Experts say contact tracing may be lagging or community transmission has increased.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Almost three in four Covid-19 cases involving Singaporeans and permanent residents and with links that have yet to be established surfaced in the past 14 days, the latest situation report by the Health Ministry showed.
Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the National University of Singapore's Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, pointed to two possible reasons - the trend could reflect greater community transmission, or it could be that contact tracing is lagging behind actual figures, given the high number of daily cases now.
Dr Leong noted:"When you do not know if a person has the virus, you let them near you. The virus can be inside the body for only around four weeks; if it fails to spread, it dies. Each time it spreads, its lifespan is extended. That is why we must strictly adhere to the circuit breaker measures to stop transmission,"
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