As of April 7, 2022, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Singapore amounted to around 1.1 million. There has been a decrease in daily cases in Singapore this week, though the number is still expected to rise largely due to the highly-contagious Omicron variant.

Overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic Singapore was one of the few countries worldwide that had managed to successfully control the spread of COVID-19. This was done through imposing a strict lockdown period during the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, introducing and enforcing hygiene and social-distancing rules, and effective contact tracing, among others. The measures in place had the intended impact, as the number of daily recorded cases have decreased to manageable levels. Furthermore, community transmission has been reduced to just several cases a week; the majority of the daily new cases of COVID-19 recorded were from overseas arrivals.

Recovering from the economic impact of COVID-19 The closure of businesses, compounded by the global restrictions on movement, had had an adverse effect on its economy. Singapore went through its worse recession on record, while the resident unemployment rate increased. However, with restrictions in the country easing, economists have raised their forecasts for economic growth in Singapore for 2021.

Singapore is currently one out of more than 200 countries and territories battling the novel coronavirus. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

On November 4, 2022, Singapore recorded 3,128 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. Although the number of daily cases is started to decline, Singapore is still expecting a rise in cases caused by the highly-contagious Omicron variant.

Singapore is currently one out of more than 200 countries and territories battling the novel coronavirus. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

On June 25, 2020, 305 patients with COVID-19 were discharged from Singapore hospitals and self-isolation facilities. As of that date, around 42.7 thousand people had been infected with the novel coronavirus in Singapore, and around 36.6 thousand people have recovered. The country has since introduced a stimulus package worth 48 billion Singapore dollars to help the Singapore economy, which had been badly hit by the pandemic.

Singapore is currently one out of more than 200 countries and territories battling the novel coronavirus. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Based on a comparison of coronavirus deaths in 210 countries relative to their population, Peru had the most losses to COVID-19 up until July 13, 2022. As of the same date, the virus had infected over 557.8 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had totaled more than 6.3 million. Note, however, that COVID-19 test rates can vary per country. Additionally, big differences show up between countries when combining the number of deaths against confirmed COVID-19 cases. The source seemingly does not differentiate between "the Wuhan strain" (2019-nCOV) of COVID-19, "the Kent mutation" (B.1.1.7) that appeared in the UK in late 2020, the 2021 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from India or the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) from South Africa.

The difficulties of death figures

This table aims to provide a complete picture on the topic, but it very much relies on data that has become more difficult to compare. As the coronavirus pandemic developed across the world, countries already used different methods to count fatalities, and they sometimes changed them during the course of the pandemic. On April 16, for example, the Chinese city of Wuhan added a 50 percent increase in their death figures to account for community deaths. These deaths occurred outside of hospitals and went unaccounted for so far. The state of New York did something similar two days before, revising their figures with 3,700 new deaths as they started to include “assumed” coronavirus victims. The United Kingdom started counting deaths in care homes and private households on April 29, adjusting their number with about 5,000 new deaths (which were corrected lowered again by the same amount on August 18). This makes an already difficult comparison even more difficult. Belgium, for example, counts suspected coronavirus deaths in their figures, whereas other countries have not done that (yet). This means two things. First, it could have a big impact on both current as well as future figures. On April 16 already, UK health experts stated that if their numbers were corrected for community deaths like in Wuhan, the UK number would change from 205 to “above 300”. This is exactly what happened two weeks later. Second, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly which countries already have “revised” numbers (like Belgium, Wuhan or New York) and which ones do not. One work-around could be to look at (freely accessible) timelines that track the reported daily increase of deaths in certain countries. Several of these are available on our platform, such as for Belgium, Italy and Sweden. A sudden large increase might be an indicator that the domestic sources changed their methodology.

Where are these numbers coming from?

The numbers shown here were collected by Johns Hopkins University, a source that manually checks the data with domestic health authorities. For the majority of countries, this is from national authorities. In some cases, like China, the United States, Canada or Australia, city reports or other various state authorities were consulted. In this statistic, these separately reported numbers were put together. For more information or other freely accessible content, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

As of July 13, 2022, 58 percent of Singaporean respondents stated that they had been avoiding public places during the COVID-19 outbreak, up from 44 percent on Feb 21, 2020. Singapore is experiencing a decrease in the number of confirmed daily cases, although the country is still expecting a rise in cases caused by the highly-contagious Omicron variant.

For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

As of April 2020, entering the first week of circuit breaker measures to restrain the spread of COVID-19 in Singapore, 46 percent of the respondents stated they left their homes once during the previous day. In response to the growing number of new cases, Singapore announced on April 3 a set of preventive "circuit breaker" measures, to be applied from April 7 to June 1.

In 202, there were 32,154 reported cases of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever. This was an increase from the number of cases reported in 2021, which was 5,261.

Largest outbreak in Singapore

Dengue is one of Singapore’s most pressing endemic infectious disease. Since Singapore was declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization in 1982, the island-state has been focusing on fighting dengue and other infectious diseases such as HIV and Ttuberculosis. However, unlike malaria Singapore has not been able to eradicate this mosquito-borne disease. The National Environment Agency (NEA) stated that Singapore saw on of the biggest dengue outbreaks in its history in 2020, reaching more that 35 thousand cases.

More dengue cases during Circuit Breaker period According to NEA, the increase in dengue infections were due to several factors: a change in the dominant dengue serotype, meaning fewer people would have immunity against it; the warmer months which allows mosquitoes to breed easily; and the impact of the ”circuit breaker” measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore. During the two months of the “circuit breaker” period ending June 1, 2020, there were five times more cases of Aedes mosquito larvae detected in housing areas compared to the two months preceding it. As of May 1, 2020, 54 percent of Singaporean respondents stated that they had been avoiding going to work during the COVID-19 outbreak, up from 11 percent on Feb 21, 2020. With more people staying at home, and as the Aedes mosquitoes are active during the daytime, this period could have led to a higher number of dengue cases. To reduce the case numbers, since March 2020, the Inter-Agency Dengue Task Force (IADTF), including Town Councils, started to remove potential mosquito breeding grounds in public spaces and residences.

In 2023, five judicial executions were carried out in Singapore, all of which were for drug trafficking. This was lower than the peak in 2022. Singapore's capital punishment laws were put in the international spotlight again in that year, as the city-state conducted a record number of executions once the COVID-19 restrictions were eased and lifted.