ASEANews HEADLINES: SINGAPORE- Expect delays in receiving Covid-19 swab test results in S’pore, say lab officials

The daily average number of swabs Parkway Laboratories received the past two weeks were almost double that from a month ago.PHOTO: PARKWAY LABORATORIES /Sherlyn Sim

SINGAPORE – People waiting for Covid-19 swab test results may experience delays beyond 24 hours because laboratories are experiencing a surge in the number of swabs being sent in daily, said Parkway Laboratories chief executive Daniel Tan.

He said the daily average number of swabs received in the past two weeks was almost double that from a month ago. He did not reveal the figures as they were deemed to be sensitive.

Dr Tan said the machines processing the swabs were fully utilised and lab technicians had been working 16 to 18 hours daily since two weeks ago, with some even volunteering to return on their days off.

He said: “This has been the busiest I’ve been since I joined in 2017. It’s even busier than the first wave last year as we did not have as much testing capacity then.”

Parkway Laboratories, which comes under  IHH Healthcare Singapore, currently processes swab tests for more than 200 general practitioner clinics, four IHH Healthcare hospitals, some nursing homes, prisons and migrant worker dormitories.

The surge in testing comes as Singapore moves aggressively to curb community transmissions of Covid-19 with mass testing and swabbing taking place at many places, including at Swab and Send Home (Sash) clinics.

READ MORE:  https://aseanews.net/2021/05/28/headline-singapore-expect-delays-in-receiving-covid-19-swab-test-results-in-spore-say-lab-officials/

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The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 220 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances.

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COVID-19 infection crosses 169.58 million globally as deaths cross 3.52 million.

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Here is the GLOBAL status as of Friday, 7am, May 28, 2021

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The update-5.28.2021
Sick Earth:  
1 Year, 6 Months, 28 Days
Coronavirus Covid-19
Cases Globally:169,583,243;
Deaths: 3,522,959:
Recovered: 151,255,161

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Country/Region New Cases Total Cases Recovered Deaths
India 211,553 27,367,935 24,626,014 315,263
Iran 10,468 2,865,864 2,379,139 79,219
Turkey 8,738 5,212,123 5,057,713 46,787
Malaysia 7,478 533,367 464,727 2,432
Nepal 6,677 535,525 411,603 6,845
Philippines 5,281 1,193,947 1,127,607 20,169
Indonesia 5,034 1,791,221 1,645,263 49,771
Iraq 4,718 1,181,698 1,094,140 16,267
Japan 3,682 725,317 650,111 12,496
Bahrain 2,803 226,416 199,713 882
Pakistan 2,724 908,576 827,843 20,465
Thailand 2,455 137,894 91,765 873
Sri Lanka 2,377 172,277 142,378 1,298
UAE 1,757 561,048 540,886 1,661
Kazakhstan 1,739 378,311 343,788 3,856
Bangladesh 1,497 793,693 733,866 12,458
Saudi Arabia 1,320 444,780 427,462 7,295
Maldives 1,299 59,644 34,621 148
Kuwait 1,176 303,039 288,289 1,751
Georgia 1,015 340,330 321,928 4,682
Oman 866 212,904 196,355 2,293
Jordan 842 733,198 712,929 9,407
S. Korea 707 137,682 127,582 1,940
Mongolia 680 54,414 48,041 257
Cambodia 660 26,989 19,772 190
Afghanistan 623 68,366 56,711 2,869
Palestine 461 306,795 299,559 3,483
Taiwan 397 6,356 1,133 46
Vietnam 313 6,086 2,853 45
Qatar 306 216,397 211,896 552
Lebanon 280 539,271 513,884 7,697
Timor-Leste 232 6,246 3,492 14
Uzbekistan 215 99,064 94,683 684
Kyrgyzstan 207 103,207 96,765 1,773
Azerbaijan 203 333,097 322,273 4,885
Armenia 130 222,269 211,957 4,411
Cyprus 69 72,159 67,625 357
Syrian Arab Republic 63 24,315 21,577 1,750
Bhutan 41 1,464 1,186 1
Singapore 26 61,916 61,360 32
Myanmar 22 143,318 132,264 3,216
Israel 19 839,408 832,566 6,406
Yemen 18 6,688 3,306 1,313
China 13 91,019 86,063 4,636
Lao People’s Democratic Republic 5 1,883 1,261 2
Brunei 4 240 228 3
Hong Kong 1 11,837 11,561 210
Macao 0 51 49 0
Tajikistan 0 13,308 13,218

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