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Singapore: 37000 Workers Including Seafarers Start Getting Vaccinated
January 18, 2021
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As COVID vaccine rollout to frontline workers takes center stage all over the world, seafarers and aviation workers are being prioritized alongwith healthcare workers, and Singapore has taken the lead in this matter as it has said that maritime workers would be getting the vaccine on priority.
Singapore became one of the first countries to prioritise COVID-19 vaccinations for frontline maritime personnel. These workers go onboard vessels at our port and come in contact with people from outside of Singapore. This vaccination exercise is part of the national COVID-19 vaccination strategy to protect frontline personnel and their
Singapore Begins Vaccination Of 37,000 Aviation, Maritime Works Singapore Begins Vaccination Of 37,000 Aviation, Maritime Works Priority will be given to the 20,000 frontline workers who may come into contact with travellers from high-risk countries.
On Monday, about 2,000 workers from the aviation sector will receive the vaccine.
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Singapore on Monday started its COVID-19 vaccination exercise, covering 37,000 frontline workers in the aviation and maritime sectors, which employ large number of foreign workers, as a new coronavirus cluster was reported in the last 24 hours.
During a visit to one of the vaccination centres at the Changi Airport Terminal 4, Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung said about 13,000 workers from the two sectors were scheduled to be vaccinated this week under the Sea-Air Vaccination Exercise.
SINGAPORE - 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). This includes two centres at Changi Airport Terminal 4 and Raffles City Convention Centre that.
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 has already vaccinated over 6,200 people against COVID-19
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Singapore s nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive, which started on December 30, 2020, is off to a good start.
So far, over 6,200 people have already been given their first-of-two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Health Minster Gan Kim Yong said after getting his first jab.
The country plans to set up a total of eight vaccination centers by the end of February 2021.
Two of them are already operational, located at Changi Airport Terminal 4 and Raffles City Convention Center. Two more are scheduled to begin operations at the former Hong Kah Secondary School and Woodlands Galaxy Community Club next week.