Singapore's Covid-19 weekly infection growth rate has remained below one for the eighth straight day.

This comes as Health Minister Ong Ye Kung told Parliament on Wednesday that there are good indications that the Omicron wave has peaked, and is starting to subside.

In The Straits Times' The Big Story, Multimedia journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke to Associate Professor Alex Cook, vice-dean of research at NUS' Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health as explains if Singapore can expect some curbs to be eased.

<a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/singapore-reports-17051-new-covid-19-cases-with-1513-patients-hospitalised">Singapore's Covid-19 weekly infection growth rate has remained below one for the eighth straight day.</a>
This comes as Health Minister Ong Ye Kung told Parliament on Wednesday that<a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/budget-debate-omicron-wave-in-singapore-has-peaked-and-is-subsiding-says-ong-ye-kung">&nbsp;there are good indications that the Omicron wave has peaked, and is starting to subside.</a>
In The Straits Times' The Big Story, Multimedia journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke to Associate Professor Alex Cook, vice-dean of research at NUS' Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health as explains if Singapore can expect some curbs to be eased.

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