Singapore minister urges authorities to prepare for 'spike' in coronavirus cases

Singapore's National Development Minister Lawrence Wong has asked people and authorities to be prepared for 'new spikes' in COVID-19 cases. According to minister, it is impossible to isolate and shut Singapore from rest of world and refore Singapore has to prepare for new cases of coronavirus.

New cases likely despite precautions

On March 3, Wong anunced that Singapore is blocking entry and transit of all visitors who travelled to Iran, rrn Italy or South Korea within last 14 days. This measure in dition to several or precautions will be taking effect from March 4. se measures according to Wong are meant to help reduce risk of imported coronavirus cases in Singapore.

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While talking to local media, Wong claimes that virus was spreing rapidly in countries everywhere and since Singapore is a small open city that is connected to world, risk of imported cases is high. While Wong said authorities were taking every possible precaution to try and contain and stop spre of virus, people must be mentally prepared to see a number of infected in Singapore to go up.

Wong furr ded that currently Singapore was seeing a small stey rise in number of cases every day but that can very easily change, taking example of several or countries where number of infected cases skyrocketed in just a few days.

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Singapore has recorded 110 cases till March 2 and 78 of previously infected have recovered and have been discharged. Of 32 that are still in hospital, most are stable and improving while seven are in critical condition. dely coronavirus outbreak that started in Hubei province in China last year has spre to several countries. re have been 93,160 confirmed cases worldwide with more than 3,000 deaths.

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(With inputs from PTI)