SINGAPORE - As infections often spike at the start of the year when school reopens, the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) has stressed that preventive measures are vital to significantly reduce the transmission of infectious diseases.

In early 2025, polyclinics here handled more acute respiratory infection cases, with the average daily number of cases rising to 3,392 in the week of Jan 26 to Feb 1, from 2,470 some two months earlier, it noted.