May 31, 2021 The exercise will start with about 56,000 students who will be sitting for the N-, O-, and A-level as well as other equivalent qualifications. The Straits Times file SINGAPORE - More than 400,000 students will be invited to receive their Covid-19 jabs from Tuesday (June 1), with priority given to secondary and pre-university students in graduating cohorts, the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced on Monday (May 31). The roll-out of the vaccinate drive for younger people here comes amid more cases of children getting infected in schools and tuition centres in the recent Covid-19 outbreak. A number of schoolchildren have tested positive for the virus over the past month, forcing some schools to switch to home-based learning before nationwide restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the community kicked in on May 16.