No circuit breaker for health services:

[Sent by Gov.sg – 6 Apr]

COVID-19: Essential healthcare and public services will continue from 7 Apr to 4 May

Healthcare services that will continue to be available:
✅ Hospitals, polyclinics, PHPCs and renal dialysis centres 🏥
✅ Non-PHPC clinics, specialist, dental, Traditional Chinese Medicine clinics
– Open for essential services only
👉 To offer tele-consultations where possible

✅ Residential and home-based community care services 👩‍⚕
– Home personal care scaled down to serve only seniors with inadequate family support

✅ Blood donation services 🩸
– Make an appointment, so donors can be spaced out for safe distancing

More: Go.gov.sg/circuitbreaker-health

Update on the number of confirmed and discharged cases:

[Sent by Gov.sg]

COVID-19: 6 Apr update

New cases: 66
– Imported: 1
– Local cases (linked): 35 (24 cases linked to clusters at foreign worker dorms; 11 linked to non-dorm clusters)
– Remaining local cases: 30 (contact tracing ongoing)

Total cases: 1,375
– Hospitalised: 571 (25 in ICU)
– In isolation, private hospitals*: 454
– Fatalities: 6
– Total discharged: 344 (Discharged today: 24)

More: go.gov.sg/moh6apr

*Patients doing well but still testing positive for the virus are moved to Community Isolation Facilities and private hospitals

Further support for families, workers and businesses during the circuit breaker period
– Businesses: go.gov.sg/solidarity-businesses
– Families and households: go.gov.sg/solidarity-families
– Workers: go.gov.sg/solidarity-workers

Stay safe and healthy everyone!

Recently, I read article which says that Microsoft Edge kicked Mozilla Firefox out of second position.

I did a very simple test comparing the performance of Microsoft Edge vs Google Chrome. Initially, I suspect both will perform relatively the same. After all, Microsoft Edge is based on Chromium (the open source base of Google Chrome). Which one is better? Judge for yourself.

Google Chrome

Microsoft Edge

Both tests were conducted on Lenovo X270 laptop.

It seems I’m not the first one encountering this issue on Microsoft Edge. What do you think?

Reminder about the vulnerable groups in this pandemic:

[Sent by Gov.sg – 5 Apr]

COVID-19: Keeping our seniors safe

Our seniors are the most vulnerable group
👵 Many have weaker immunity
👴 More likely to have other health conditions
😷 Have higher risk of severe illness and death from the virus

💜 To our Seniors
– Stay at home as much as possible
– Don’t go to the market
– Ask someone for help with your marketing and essentials
– If you have to go out, wear a mask

💙 For those with seniors in the family
– Help the seniors with their marketing and essentials
– If you are unwell, do not visit or go near to seniors

❤️ The health of all depends on each one of us.

Measures on Foreign Workers:

[Sent by Gov.sg – 5 Apr]

COVID-19: Protecting our Foreign Workers (FWs)

Rising cases in FW dorms
– Particularly in S11 Dormitory@Punggol, Westlite (Toh Guan) dormitory

Both dorms gazetted as isolation areas to avoid further spread to other dorms and community

Protecting FWs who are well
– FWs who are symptomatic have already been isolated
– All FWs in both dorms will not go to work
– Activities and interactions between FWs in both dorms minimised
– Efforts under way to reduce density of dorms

All affected FWs in both dorms will be taken care of
– Will continue to be paid salaries
– Daily meals provided; also essentials like masks, thermometers, hand sanitisers; digital connectivity
– Employers can claim $100 daily allowance
– Onsite medical support

Advisory to all Dorm Operators
– Maintain high hygiene standards
– Adhere to safe distancing measures
– Unwell FWs should not work, see a doctor immediately

Go.gov.sg/apr5moh

Update on the number of confirmed and discharged cases:

[Sent by Gov.sg]

COVID-19: 5 Apr Update

New imported cases: 4

New local cases: 116 [50 linked to existing clusters, contact tracing ongoing for remaining 66]

Total cases in Singapore: 1,309
Discharged today: 23
Total discharged: 320
Total remaining in Hospital: 569

Most in hospital stable or improving. 25 in ICU.

Go.gov.sg/moh5apr

Do your part for contact tracing
– Download TraceTogether App to help contact tracers determine if you have been exposed to virus
– Keep your taxi receipts for 1 month to help contact tracing team, if you or your driver is infected
Go.gov.sg/traceapp

The health of all depends on each one of us.

Stay safe and healthy everyone!