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Curbs on number of visitors, duration of visits at hospitals and residential care homes as COVID-19 cases rise
SINGAPORE: Visitor safe management measures at all hospital wards and residential care homes in Singapore will be tightened for four weeks as community COVID-19 cases rise, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Wednesday (Oct 12).
This is to protect healthcare capacity as well as vulnerable patients and residents, MOH said in a media release.
From Oct 14 until Nov 10, patients in hospitals will only be allowed to have two pre-designated visitors for the duration of their stays.
Only one of these visitors will be allowed at a patient's bedside at any one time.
"Critically ill patients will be allowed up to five pre-designated patients, and two visitors may be allowed at the bedside at any one point in time," MOH said.
Visits will be limited to 30 minutes.
In exceptional situations, such as for critically ill patients, paediatric patients, birthing or post-partum mothers, and for patients requiring additional care support, visitors may be allowed to stay beyond 30 minutes on a case-by-case basis at the hospitals' discretion, MOH added.
Biden: ‘Slight’ recession possible, not inevitable
President Joe Biden said Tuesday night that there is a possibility of a “slight recession,” while reiterating his stance that he doesn’t think there will be one at all in the U.S.
“No,” Biden said when asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if Americans should prepare for a recession.
“It hadn’t happened yet,” the president added later. “There’s no guarantee that (there’s) going to be. I don’t think there will be a recession. If it is, it’ll be a very slight recession. That is, we’ll move down slightly.”
Biden argued that the U.S. is in a better position than any other major country economically while acknowledging that “we still have real problems.”
He said the American Rescue Plan, which was the COVID-19 relief package, as well as the Inflation Reduction Law, which was the Democrats’ sweeping climate and tax bill, have helped position the economy for success.
“I mean, there’s so much that’s been accomplished,” Biden said. The elements that bring on a recesson are “just not there … they’ve been predicting this off and on …”
Tapper noted, though, that Biden said a slight recession is possible.
“It is possible. Look, it’s possible. I don’t anticipate it,” Biden replied.
The president has said that a recession is not inevitable since June, when the Federal Reserve first raised interest rates. Fed officials have vowed not to let up fighting inflation, even if it means driving the economy toward a recession. The Fed plans to raise interest rates again before the end of the year.
Biden also argued in his interview with CNN that Democrats have something to run on in the upcoming midterm elections, criticizing Republicans by asking what their platform is.
“The first thing they said they’re going to do is get rid of the Inflation Reduction Act. And so what’s that do? They’re going to raise drug prices, raise medical costs again. Be sure that we’re going to no longer be able to have the ability to have tax credits for weatherizing your homes,” Biden said, noting provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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