People waiting in the observation area at the Covid-19 vaccination centre at Yew Tee Community Club after receiving their jabs on May 20, 2021. - ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Singapore kicked off mass vaccination at the start of the year but lags behind countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel in vaccine roll-out because of supply constraints, experts said.
Slightly more than one-third of the population in Singapore have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, and about one-quarter are fully vaccinated.
This places it behind countries that have managed to give at least one dose to nearly or more than half of their populations, which has allowed them to gradually ease Covid-19 restrictions even as the threat of new variants looms.
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