Singapore facing new Covid-19 wave; vaccination recommended especially for seniors, says health minister

To protect bed capacity, public hospitals have been asked to reduce their non-urgent elective surgery cases. - PHOTO: ST FILE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): 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 18.

“We are at the beginning part of the wave where it is steadily rising,” said Mr Ong. “So I would say the wave should peak in the next two to four weeks, which means between mid- and end of June.”