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Singapore must brace for 'much bigger' wave from Omicron compared Delta: Govt
Updated On: 06 January, 2022 09:35 AM IST | Mumbai | PTI
Noting a similar situation in Singapore, the minister said of the 2,252 Omicron cases in Singapore so far, three required oxygen supplementation, but were taken off the support within three days and are recovering
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Singapore must brace for a “much bigger” coronavirus infection wave from Omicron as compared to that from the Delta variant, the health ministry has said. At its peak, the number of Omicron cases could be “a few times” more than the approximately 3,000 daily cases that the Delta variant was registering in October and November last year, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said at a press conference on Wednesday.
While Delta infections were doubling in six to eight days, Omicron infections may double in two to three days, he said, adding that the city-state must brace for a “much bigger” Covid wave from Omicron compared to that from the Delta variant. However, the “silver lining” is that studies coming out of countries like South Africa, the US and Canada is that infections from Omicron are less severe than that from the Delta variant, Ong was quoted as saying by Channel News Asia at a Covid-19 multi-ministry task force press conference.
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