SINGAPORE, 08 Mar (CNA)- Singapore reported 22,201 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Tuesday (Mar 8), comprising 21,986 local cases and 215 imported infections.

This is the sixth consecutive Tuesday that case numbers have gone up from the day before. Health Minister Ong Ye Kung had previously referred to such a pattern, writing on Facebook in October 2021 that numbers would "always spike after the weekends".

There were 15 fatalities reported on Tuesday, taking the death toll from coronavirus complications to 1,099.

Singapore has recorded 868,542 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.