Covid-19: 10-15% of patients likely to need hospital care when situation stabilises | THE BIG STORY

GP clinics and private medical providers that perform swab tests have been seeing a surge in patients, amid record-high Covid-19 community cases in recent days. Read more: https://str.sg/3SjK

Separately, Singapore's director of medical services Associate Professor Kenneth Mak has indicated that only 10 per cent to 15 per cent of Covid-19 patients in Singapore are expected to need hospital care when the current increase in cases has stabilised. Read more: https://str.sg/3Srg

Journalist Cheryl Tan, who recently spoke with Prof Mak at the Singaporean Researchers Global Summit at Nanyang Technological University, shares more about his views on the Covid-19 situation.

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