Seniors will get help to make bookings for their Covid-19 jabs as the Government steps up its roll-out of the vaccine, said Education Minister Lawrence Wong.
Mr Wong, who co-chairs Singapore s multi-ministry task force tackling Covid-19, announced yesterday that the elderly will start receiving their shots from later this month.
Letters will be sent out to inform them when they can make bookings for their vaccinations.
Volunteers will be trained to help seniors make online bookings via a booking system, and information in different languages will be given out at Housing Board estates. This process will take a bit of time. So, we will also step up our outreach and engagement efforts, particularly to the elderly across all our HDB estates, to let them know what this is about. and also to help them with the booking because not everybody will be familiar with the IT system, Mr Wong said.
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Mr Gan also announced that eight vaccination centres to be set up by the end of February. This includes two centres at Changi Airport Terminal 4 and Raffles City Convention Centre that are already operational, as well as two more that will be ready by end-January.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): More than 6,200 people have received their first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine since Singapore kicked off its vaccination drive, with eight vaccination centres to be set up by the end of February, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said on Wednesday (Jan 13).