Her message is clear: stop spreading COVID-19, don't infect parents, elders.
Tam delivered that pre-weekend warning -- one week after her deputy Dr. Howard Njoo did the same -- because of the worrying trend of rising infections among people aged 20 to 39.
Tam says that age group accounted for the highest incidence rates for COVID-19 cases in the past two weeks. Tam outlined how the daily national case count, based on a seven-day average, is rising again across the country after falling earlier this summer.Tam says the seven-day measure is the best way to assess the trend in the number of infections.
She says it stood at a high of 1,800 per day in early May, then dipped to 273 in early July, but in the last seven days the average daily count rose to 487.
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