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Public places visited by COVID-19 cases in Tan Tock Seng Hospital cluster to close for 2 days More COVID-19 cases are expected in the hospital cluster as authorities conduct proactive testing, says the Health Minister.
Healthcare workers in personal protective equipment at Tan Tock Seng Hospital s Accident and Emergency (A&E) department on Apr 30, 2021. (Photo: Calvin Oh)
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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.
SINGAPORE - The elderly will start receiving their Covid-19 vaccinations earlier than expected from later this month, as the Government steps up its roll-out of the vaccine, said Education Minister Lawrence Wong.
Mr Wong, who co-chairs Singapore s Covid-19 multi-ministry task force, on Wednesday (Jan 13) said the elderly will get help to make bookings for the vaccine.
The Government had previously announced that seniors aged 70 and above would start getting jabs from February. Towards the end of the month, we will begin the programme for the elderly, where we will invite them to come to the nearest polyclinic, Public Health Preparedness Clinic (PHPC) or vaccination centre on a booking system, said Mr Wong after receiving his Pfizer-BioNTech jab at the Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital.