The weekly infection growth rate is 2.64, down from Friday's 2.70. A figure above 1 means that the number of new weekly cases is rising.
A total of 1,590 new Protocol 2 infections were confirmed on Saturday, comprising eight imported cases and 1,582 local cases.
Another 873 cases were confirmed via PCR tests. A total of 636 cases were local infections while 237 were imported.
As of Friday, Singapore has recorded 310,276 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
Case numbers have been backdated to Jan 6 when general practitioners (GPs) started to order Protocol 2, for the purposes of calculating the total number of infections in Singapore as well as the week-on-week increase in infection numbers.
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