This article presents official statistics gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore.

The Ministry of Health of Singapore has been official numbers, on a daily basis since the first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 virus on 23 January 2020.[1][2][3][4] In their situation reports, the cases are broken down into several categories: imported cases, non-imported community cases, non-imported dormitory cases.[5][6] Prior to 16 April 2020, MOH had released the data only at the end of the day. However upon discovery of a civil servant leaking information before the official release of data, since 17 April 2020, MOH has been providing a preliminary update of summarised figures at around noon of each day with the details released at the end of the day.[7]

Classifying COVID-19 cases

Singapore follows strictly to World Health Organization's case definition for classifying COVID-19 deaths, which does not include non-pneumonia fatalities like those caused by blood or heart issues among COVID-19 patients in its official tally.[8] This was exemplified in three cases which the cause of death was recorded as either ischaemic heart disease or heart attack,[9] and a suicide committed by an Indian migrant worker who was tested positive for the virus.[10][11]

Charts

The linear plot shows the total number of cases as a function of time (by date) since 23 January 2020, the date of the first reported case in Singapore, while the graph plotted on a logarithmic scale, or a semi-log plot, shows an exponential growth in the number of cases as a straight line on the graph. In the logarithmic scale plot, the slope of the straight line determines the rate of growth of the number of cases, with a steeper slope representing a higher growth rate. The third and fourth plot shows the number of daily new cases and total active cases respectively as reported.

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  Cases per day

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  Active cases

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  Recoveries per day

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References

  1. ^ "MOH | Updates on COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) Local Situation". www.moh.gov.sg. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  2. ^ "MOH | Past Updates on COVID-19 Local Situation". www.moh.gov.sg. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  3. ^ "MOH | Past Updates on COVID-19 Local Situation (Jan 2020 - Jun 2020)". www.moh.gov.sg. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Singapore confirms first case of Wuhan virus". CNA. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  5. ^ "COVID-19 Situation Report". covidsitrep.moh.gov.sg. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  6. ^ 24 December 2020 Daily Report on COVID-19 (PDF) (Report). 24 December 2020.
  7. ^ Yong, Michael (23 April 2020). "Civil servant arrested for leaking number of new coronavirus cases in Singapore, retrieving Covid-19 patient's records without authorisation". The Straits Times. Retrieved 25 December 2020.((cite web)): CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Aravindan, John Geddie, Aradhana (18 September 2020). "Why is Singapore's COVID-19 death rate the world's lowest". Reuters. Retrieved 25 December 2020.((cite news)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "COVID-19: Why 3 positive cases who died from heart issues were not added to Singapore's official death toll". CNA. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  10. ^ hermesauto (25 September 2020). "Death of Covid-19-infected construction worker whose body was found at KTPH ruled a suicide". The Straits Times. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Singapore court declares death of COVID-19 infected Indian worker a suicide". Tribuneindia News Service. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.((cite web)): CS1 maint: url-status (link)