Singapore looks into unusual surge after record cases. Other Covid-19 updates: 🇩🇪 Germany records highest daily cases since April 🇲🇽 Mexico's 5,000 new cases likely undercounted 🇧🇷 Brazil sees rising cases, no slowdown For more:
Thursday, October 28, 2021Singapore's health ministry said it is looking into an "unusual surge" in infections after the city-state reported 5,324 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, the most since the beginning of the pandemic."The infection numbers are unusually high today, mostly due to many Covid-positive cases detected by the testing laboratories within a few hours in the afternoon," the ministry of health said in a statement.
The Robert Koch Institute reported 28,037 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, and 126 coronavirus-related fatalities. Mexico's 5,000 new cases likely undercounted Mexico has added 4,797 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 386 more fatalities, health ministry data showed, bringing the country's overall death toll from the pandemic to 287,274 and the total number of cases to 3,793,783.
Officials have said the ministry's official figures likely represent a significant undercount of both cases and deaths due to a lack of widespread testing.Brazil has registered 433 new deaths due to Covid-19 and 17,184 additional confirmed cases, according to data released by its Ministry of Health.
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