{"id":5853,"date":"2024-05-18T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2024-05-18T22:50:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T02:50:41","slug":"singapore-facing-new-covid-19-wave-vaccination-recommended-especially-for-seniors-ong-ye-kung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/singapore-facing-new-covid-19-wave-vaccination-recommended-especially-for-seniors-ong-ye-kung\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore facing new Covid-19 wave; vaccination recommended especially for seniors: Ong Ye Kung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore is seeing a new Covid-19 wave, with rising cases of infection in the last two weeks, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on May&nbsp;18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are at the beginning part of the wave where it is steadily rising,\u201d said Mr Ong. \u201cSo I would say the wave should peak in the next two to four weeks, which means between mid- and end of June.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Health (MOH) said that to protect hospital bed capacity and as a precaution, public hospitals have been asked to reduce their non-urgent elective surgery cases and move suitable patients to facilities like transitional care facilities or back home through Mobile Inpatient Care@Home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore is seeing a new Covid-19 wave, with rising cases of infection in the last two weeks, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on May&nbsp;18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are at the beginning part of the wave where it is steadily rising,\u201d said Mr Ong. \u201cSo I would say the wave should peak in the next two to four weeks, which means between mid- and end of June.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Health (MOH) said that to protect hospital bed capacity and as a precaution, public hospitals have been asked to reduce their non-urgent elective surgery cases and move suitable patients to facilities like transitional care facilities or back home through Mobile Inpatient Care@Home. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/singapore-facing-new-covid-19-wave-vaccination-recommended-especially-for-seniors-ong-ye-kung\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Singapore facing new Covid-19 wave; vaccination recommended especially for seniors: Ong Ye Kung<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1130,18,651,1146,1094,287,55,14,889,320,653,47],"class_list":["post-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asia","tag-covid-19","tag-jn-1","tag-kp-1","tag-kp-2","tag-new-wave","tag-omicron","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-singapore","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine-clinics","tag-variants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}