It was the highest since Singapore announced 13,166 new cases on 22 March.
With 10,732 local and 772 imported cases, Tuesday’s figure is more than double that of Monday’s 5,309 total cases.
One more person died from COVID-19, bringing the total death toll here to 1,410. On Monday, Singapore reported.
Singapore’s weekly COVID-19 infection growth rate rose to 1.62 on Tuesday, up from 1.56 on Monday.
The rate refers to the ratio of community cases for the past week over the week before, where a figure of more than one means that the number of new weekly cases is increasing.
A total of 437 patients have been hospitalised, including 36 patients who require oxygen supplementation and nine who are in the intensive care unit.
Singapore is now facing its next wave of Omicron infections, earlier than a previous prediction of July or August, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Tuesday.
About 45 per cent of the COVID-19 cases in the community in the past week were cases with Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, up from 30 per cent the week before, said MOH on Monday. However, international and local data show that the two subvariants do not result in more severe outcomes compared with the earlier Omicron strains, according to MOH.
MOH will not be making changes to the current COVID-19 safe management measures but will monitor the situation closely, and do not rule out the need to tighten them “should the need arise”, it added.
As of Monday, 92 per cent of the city-state’s total population had completed their full COVID-19 vaccine regimen, while 78 per cent had received their booster shots.
