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Singapore reports highest single-day rise in COVID-19 cases on Thursday
The country also reported two new deaths due to the coronavirus.
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A medical staff attends to a woman before receiving a dose of the Sinopharm Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at the Mount Elizabeth hospital vaccine centre in Singapore on September 7, 2021. (AFP/Roslan Rahman)
Singapore's health ministry reported 2,478 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest since the beginning of the pandemic.
The country also reported two new deaths due to the coronavirus.
The fatalities were identified as a 79-year-old Singapore permanent resident and an 87-year-old Singaporean, Channel News Asia reported.
Both women had not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and had various underlying medical conditions, said the health ministry. The ministry did not provide information on what their underlying medical conditions were.
There have been 40 deaths in September alone, a new monthly record. Singapore's death toll now stands at 95.
A recent rise in cases after the relaxation of some COVID-19 measures has prompted Singapore to pause further reopening. More than 80 percent of its population has been vaccinated against the virus.
From this week, Singapore tightened some curbs such as limiting social gatherings to two people and making work from home a default.
