In a wide-ranging interview on The Big Story, Professor Dale Fisher, a senior consultant at NUH’s Division of Infectious Diseases, discusses the latest developments on the Covid-19 Omicron variant and adjustments to how Singapore manages Omicron infections.
It comes as Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said that Singapore must expect a new wave of Covid-19 cases in the coming days and weeks. READ MORE:
“It is inevitable that Omicron will spread in our community as it has in countries everywhere,” said Mr Wong, who co-chairs the multi-ministry task force on Covid-19, in a Facebook post on Monday (Dec 27).
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ALL sentient beings are owners of their own Karma, inherits his own Karma, is born of his own Karma, bears the Karma associated to his immediate family and community, supported by his own Karma.
Whatever Karma he did, GOOD or BAD. That's what he will INHERIT.
Way more transmissible means more positive numbers. Positive workers cannot work. Re infection with Omicron & delta & other variants not ruled out.
Omicron cannot be "managed" like Delta. Greater danger to existing vax & unvax with ailments facing sufferrings & death.
I do not think treating omicron as delta is a good idea forward.
Home recovery will ensure & guarantee community spread.
Faster spread numbers means overwhelmed service sectors including health.
Unless omicron positive workers are allowed to remain at work to do even more spreading, things will not work. Endemic can only be got where all Singaporeans are omicron positive ongoing rounds like a common flu. If omicron or a new deadly evolved variant is outside our expectations, we will be in a very bad way.
Vaccines & endemic requires a stable virus. We have a dangerous unstable. Our rush into endemic is fraught with inbuilt high risk & dangers.
Everything is based on a past variant. We need to really pray & hope something bad don't come.
Another cheap expert
Lol
Omicron virus has high transmission rate but cause less severity for human. Prevention of virus from spreading in community can maintain high standard of public health and no disruption in public daily life.
Singapore has done whatever it can to prepare for the next COVID-19 wave said LW. What they have done has increased the number of imported Omicron cases and now the ban on passengers from 10 African countries from entering or transiting in the country has been lifted. Although border measures is being taken, an unseen risk is still present.
U should just live normal no matter what. The vaxxed already 90%, so should have reached herd immunity. Otherwise stop vax!.
Closing every borders are impossible and unthinkable as all the countries in the world are living in close proximity. Just let omicron spread in every community and the world will be fine. People, kpkb, just let them be. The govt’s job is to get their people vaccinated, so as to prevent severe infection and death. Just look at South Africa, every new variant from Alpha breeds into Beta and Delta breeds into Omicron. Their vaccination population is extremely Low at 20% and 7 millions population are having HIV which potentially is a very good environment for breeding new variant. Omicron comes and shoot up but immediately dipping sharply within a month. By now, practically majority of their population have been infected with covid. Their culture is to just let it be. Spreading just let it spread knowing it will comes down. And omicron is their 4th wave so far for covid pandemic and this is the fastest dipping as compared to last three wave.
Of course won't…just don't report….let people die on street…dead men tell no lies
aiya if the 50,000 don't want to be vaccinated, let them be. Stop implementing so many restrictions just because of these people.
They're already given the option to get vaccinated, if they don't then what to do?
If you had vaccine that can cure and stop virus you will still have no right to force people to take vaccine, how you wan to enter history for forcing people to take vaccine that totaly have no effect to health of people.
Really hope after 3 years..all side effects occur
The virus is always ahead no matter what when and where bcos they appeared billion years ago but human race is just nothing compare to them. Even the vac are made out of them and we still want to be proud landing on moon mars and etc
The goverments worldwide are Just creating extremists worldwide… God plz save our children from this world. Stop the mandates! Its going to be horrible
Omicron is not going to be the worse…..PAP's "Elon musk" rocket genius cum virus confidante who whispers into LHL's earlobes softly at night has spoken,current variants of the covid 19 coronavirus is evolving faster than silicone processor technology.with a new variant coming out every 3 to 4 months faster than the next "generation"( spoken with a French accent) of iPhones thanks to lax transmission protocols and African biochemistry.
At the current rate,we are expected to reach the 15th evolution by 2015 with the final form omegasigmasixultron emerging from the
Our only hope,says PAP is to inhale deeply and hope our immune systems develop antigen rapid reactions faster than China can produce vaccines and fake art tests.
So short-sighted….
Just wait until the virus mutates further to something more deadly. Singapore should be taking the opportunity during the lull period to prepare for the next wave.
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Admits the Test Can Not Differentiate Between the Flu and COVID Virus.
If there is a contraceptive vaccine.
After taking that vaccine, you still need to wear a condom, and you could still get pregnant.
You may get short term effects, and you have no idea what are the long term effects.
Will you still take that vaccine?
Yea, exactly what I thought. You must be damn bloody stupid to take it.
Lawrence…ever three months like clockwork…. saying we have to learnt to live with it
See how far we come from Voluntary Vaccinnation to No Jab No Job in 1 year.
Keep deleting comments. Come delete this
Brace yourself…Delmicron is coming…we’ll go back 2 ppl dining during CNY…😂😂😂
Before vaccine was rolled out, infected case was low death rate non…eversince vaccine was implemented by the stupid leader now all goes up..vaccine doesn't work fools.vaccine till die..
Endless rubbish. Get the mind ready to accept. Is this a human hatch up germ warfare? Everything declare in advance.are these people GOD?
Stupid vaccinations are becoming obsolete. Where are the thing minds? Pigs fit for slaughter.