BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Philippine Ambassador to Singapore Medardo Macaraig said Wednesday that despite the rising COVID-19 cases in Singapore, the situation in the country is not yet alarming.
Speaking to Filipino reporters, Macaraig said the number of COVID-19 cases in Singapore will not yet result in the implementation of new health regulations.''Even if there's an increase, hindi pa considered alarming, and it's not yet a cause for the re-issuance of new guidelines or new COVID protocols. There is none yet; we are still okay,'' Macaraig said.''I suppose because Singapore has a very high standard when it comes to medical sciences.
It was reported that cases of COVID-19 have doubled in Singapore in the past few weeks. Due to this, the demand for COVID-19 test kits has also increased.Reports said that the uptick in cases was due to the FLiRT variant.The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health said that the FLiRT variant is being used to describe a whole family of different variants—including KP.2, JN.1.
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