隨著本地社區的單日新冠確診病例創新高,新加坡開始改為報告每日住院患者情況,將關注的重點轉移到醫療能力,同時計劃將新冠肺炎作為地方性流行病進行管理。
彭博社編輯的數據顯示,新加坡的新冠疫苗接種率達到81%,在百萬人口以上國家中排在首位。但每日確診病例卻在持續增加,其中絕大多數患者的癥狀輕微或者無癥狀。
有跡象表明,新加坡的大規模疫苗接種減少了重癥病例。雖然在過去一周,新加坡的每日本土確診病例增加了一倍,達到347例,但需要輔助供氧或重癥監護的重癥病例數量幾乎與上周相同。
新加坡將改變報告新冠疫情情況的方式。負責每日報告重癥病例數據的新加坡衛生部(Ministry of Health)將關注重點轉變為醫院的容量,而不是新增病例。
這個城市國家將不再報告關聯病例和無關聯病例,因為該國衛生部在每日情況通報所附的一份聲明中表示:“我們目前的策略是與新冠病毒并存,所以這些數據不再像以前那樣重要。”從9月9日開始,報告的頻率也將從每天兩次減少為一次。
新加坡衛生部稱:“我們的新冠疫情防控現在進入了一個截然不同的階段。”調整之后的報告將“體現突出問題”,例如醫院是否不堪重負等。
雖然每日報告沒有列出新加坡醫療系統的容量,但之前的報告表明,其醫療系統遠未達到極限。例如,新加坡衛生部部長王乙康在7月表示,如果有需要,新加坡有1000張重癥監護病床能夠用于治療新冠肺炎患者。目前只有6名患者住進了重癥監護室。在2020年4月新冠疫情最嚴重的時期,需要重癥監護的患者也只有32人。
除了重癥監護以外,新加坡還計劃提高其醫療容量。新加坡的社區醫療設施可以容納超過5500名核酸檢測呈陽性的輕癥或無癥狀患者,這比新加坡上個月的總確診人數多出了約2000個床位。此外,新加坡政府正在試點允許部分輕癥患者居家康復的計劃。(財富中文網)
翻譯:劉進龍
審校:汪皓
隨著本地社區的單日新冠確診病例創新高,新加坡開始改為報告每日住院患者情況,將關注的重點轉移到醫療能力,同時計劃將新冠肺炎作為地方性流行病進行管理。
彭博社編輯的數據顯示,新加坡的新冠疫苗接種率達到81%,在百萬人口以上國家中排在首位。但每日確診病例卻在持續增加,其中絕大多數患者的癥狀輕微或者無癥狀。
有跡象表明,新加坡的大規模疫苗接種減少了重癥病例。雖然在過去一周,新加坡的每日本土確診病例增加了一倍,達到347例,但需要輔助供氧或重癥監護的重癥病例數量幾乎與上周相同。
新加坡將改變報告新冠疫情情況的方式。負責每日報告重癥病例數據的新加坡衛生部(Ministry of Health)將關注重點轉變為醫院的容量,而不是新增病例。
這個城市國家將不再報告關聯病例和無關聯病例,因為該國衛生部在每日情況通報所附的一份聲明中表示:“我們目前的策略是與新冠病毒并存,所以這些數據不再像以前那樣重要。”從9月9日開始,報告的頻率也將從每天兩次減少為一次。
新加坡衛生部稱:“我們的新冠疫情防控現在進入了一個截然不同的階段。”調整之后的報告將“體現突出問題”,例如醫院是否不堪重負等。
雖然每日報告沒有列出新加坡醫療系統的容量,但之前的報告表明,其醫療系統遠未達到極限。例如,新加坡衛生部部長王乙康在7月表示,如果有需要,新加坡有1000張重癥監護病床能夠用于治療新冠肺炎患者。目前只有6名患者住進了重癥監護室。在2020年4月新冠疫情最嚴重的時期,需要重癥監護的患者也只有32人。
除了重癥監護以外,新加坡還計劃提高其醫療容量。新加坡的社區醫療設施可以容納超過5500名核酸檢測呈陽性的輕癥或無癥狀患者,這比新加坡上個月的總確診人數多出了約2000個床位。此外,新加坡政府正在試點允許部分輕癥患者居家康復的計劃。(財富中文網)
翻譯:劉進龍
審校:汪皓
Singapore is shifting the focus of its daily reports to hospitalizations to turn attention to its medical capacity alongside plans to manage the virus as endemic, as the country’s daily count of COVID cases in the local community rose to the highest it’s ever been.
At 81%, Singapore has the best vaccination rate in the world among countries of more than 1 million people, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Yet daily cases—the vast majority of which are mild or asymptomatic—are on the rise.
There are signs that Singapore’s mass vaccination is holding down serious cases. While the overall number of daily local cases has doubled in the past week to 347, the number of serious cases requiring supplemental oxygen or intensive care is about the same as last week.
Singapore is changing the way it reports the COVID-19 situation. The Ministry of Health is now leading its daily report with data on serious cases in a shift that focuses attention on its hospital capacity instead of the rising number of cases.
The city-state will no longer report the number of linked and unlinked cases “as this is no longer as relevant as before, given our current strategy of living with COVID-19,” the ministry said in a statement accompanying its daily update, which will also be cut to once instead of twice a day from September 9.
“We are now in a very different stage of our battle against COVID-19,” the health ministry said. The revamped reports will “reflect the salient issues” such as whether hospital capacity is getting overwhelmed, it said.
While the daily report doesn’t list Singapore’s system-wide capacity, previous statements suggest the city-state isn’t anywhere close to its limits. For example, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung in July said as many as 1,000 ICU beds could be made available to COVID-19 patients if needed. Just six are in ICU now. At its peak, in April of 2020, there were as many as 32 people in ICU.
Singapore is also looking to expand its health care capacity beyond critical care. The government has space for more than 5,500 COVID-positive people with mild or no visible symptoms in community care facilities, which is about 2,000 more beds than the total number of people in Singapore who got COVID over the last month. Additionally, the government is piloting a program that would allow some mildly ill patients to recover at home.