SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): An 86-year-old Singaporean woman linked to the now-closed Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) cluster died from complications due to Covid-19 infection on Monday (June 7), bringing the total number of deaths here to 34.
SINGAPORE - When my mother lost her sense of taste and smell after she got Covid-19 in April, she lost whatever appetite she used to have. Meat, in particular, became repulsive to her. Worried about the lack of protein in her diet, I decided to order and have delivered to her fish collagen soup, which is easier to swallow. The.
And this will not be the last time that the virus mutates, the experts added.
Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the National University of Singapore s (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, told The Straits Times on Saturday (May 29): What is frightening is the speed at which this variant is able to spread and circulate widely within the community, often surpassing the capability of contact-tracing units to track and isolate exposed contacts to break the transmission chains. It has the potential to unleash a bigger pandemic storm than the world has previously seen.
B1617 has mutated to spread more easily from person to person, and may dampen the protection conferred by vaccines as well as natural infection, though only slightly, experts say.