Singapore authorities announced that the nation’s pandemic alert status will be lowered from “orange” to “yellow,” with further easing of community and border measures due to improving numbers for daily infections and hospitalizations.
In a press conference on April 22, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung announced that the nation’s Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (DORSCON) level would be lowered to yellow in view of the country’s improving COVID-19 situation.
According to Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH), the seven-day moving average of daily case numbers have fallen from 18,300 at their peak to under 3,100 in the past week. Hospitalizations have decreased from 1,726 to 266, while intensive care unit (ICU) patients are in the “single digits.”
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