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Vaccination and booster programmes will be key in building up Singapore’s resistance to the virus, said Mr Ong.
As restrictions are eased and activities resume, more people will also be infected with COVID-19 and then recover from it, he added.
“And in that process, it adds further immunity to our population. So the resistance against the virus increases progressively, at some point, infection numbers will not go up anymore.
“It plateaus and then it starts to come down. And that is why we say no transmission wave will last forever because it is against nature,” Mr Ong said.
“Then we may relax social restrictions, allow event gatherings in bigger groups, and with it find that cases do not go up very sharply. It may stay at an acceptable level, probably a few hundred a day and maybe mild infections.”
Some people who catch COVID-19 may still fall very sick and succumb to the illness, but this is “no different” from living with influenza today, he said.
“And that is when we can live quite normally with COVID-19.”
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sin...rictions-weekly-infection-growth-rate-2263777
As restrictions are eased and activities resume, more people will also be infected with COVID-19 and then recover from it, he added.
“And in that process, it adds further immunity to our population. So the resistance against the virus increases progressively, at some point, infection numbers will not go up anymore.
“It plateaus and then it starts to come down. And that is why we say no transmission wave will last forever because it is against nature,” Mr Ong said.
“Then we may relax social restrictions, allow event gatherings in bigger groups, and with it find that cases do not go up very sharply. It may stay at an acceptable level, probably a few hundred a day and maybe mild infections.”
Some people who catch COVID-19 may still fall very sick and succumb to the illness, but this is “no different” from living with influenza today, he said.
“And that is when we can live quite normally with COVID-19.”
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sin...rictions-weekly-infection-growth-rate-2263777