Singapore Gives Half of Population at Least 1 Covid Vaccine Shot
Citizens register for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Singapore.
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Singapore’s government said more than half its population has received at least one Covid-19 vaccine shot, the first Southeast Asian nation to cross this milestone in the battle against the pandemic.
“Most happy this morning when I received an update that slightly more than 50% of our population have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine,” the city-state’s Health Minister Ong Ye Kung posted on his Facebook page on Saturday. About 36% have received two doses, he said.