Singapore will open up vaccination for 12-18 year-olds,followed by the last group of young adults aged 39 years and below.
“As long as our population is mostly vaccinated,we should be able to trace,isolate,and treat the cases that pop up,and prevent a severe and disastrous outbreak,” Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday in a speech.
The Prime Minister said everyone who was eligible for a vaccination and wanted one should be able to get at least their first jab by the country’s national day,which falls on August 9.
More than a third of Singapore’s population of 5.7 million has received at least the first dose so far.
The country should also be able to relax recently imposed restrictions on social gatherings after two weeks if the local COVID-19 situation continues to improve,the PM added.
Singapore re-imposed some restrictions on social gatherings this month,the toughest since exiting a lockdown last year,to combat a recent spike in local COVID-19 infections. The current restrictions are to last until June 13.