It is ramping up significantly, with a corresponding growth rate of confirmed cases. 4 days ago it was approaching 1000. It will probably be 10,000 by tomorrow.
Previous peak was over 1000 new cases per day (7 day avg), currently at around 415, but was at 150-170 at the beginning of Sept. Well on their way, but still a ways off previous peak.
Yeah, but they've also been able to significantly slow the spread, growing at what looks to be closer to 10% day-over-day (doubling every week). Most everywhere else is seeing 25-35% (doubling every 2-3 days).
Back in February, there were a handful of cases popping up here and there. And then growing in each hotspot from 5 to 10 to 20, etc. It didn't take long for things to get out of control.
Without some major game-changer in the next two months, its hard to see a reason why the same thing won't just happen again. Hopefully over the summer it's not as contagious due to hot weather.
According to WHO stats, the number of confirmed cases in the US has grown rapidly over the past 2-3 days (from about 15 to 53, iirc). This is a little worrying considering that they have had restrictions on travel from China for about 20 days (still iirc).
I'm actually slightly worried as Singapore seemed to have handled the crisis quite well with only 1000ish cases for the longest time, but have now had cases balloon from only around 1350 total cases two weeks ago to 6000 today.
Certainly, a lot of it has to with migrant workers and their living situations, but it also underscores how even when you have things under control, the virus can spread rapidly when your guard is down.
Almost all new cases are from clusters in dormitories for migrant workers. They live very close together in those locations, and things will spread very fast.
Numbers outside these locations are going down because of the recent "circuit breaker" they introduced a few weeks ago.
Yes about three weeks ago. If that was going to cause exponential growth then we should have seen a sustained rise in cases by now, but it hasn't happened.
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