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- Advertisement - Singapore — It’s the time of the year for panettone! Workers’ Party leader Pritam Singh has shared that a resident from his Eunos ward of Aljunied GRC dropped-off the sweet bread for the volunteer team at a Meet-the-People Session (MPS). In a Facebook post on Monday (Dec 21), Mr Singh said: “Until Jamus Lim introduced panettone into the political lexicon of Singapore on 11 Nov 2020, I, like a fair few Singaporeans I hazard, had no idea what it was.” In November, Associate Professor Jamus Lim had introduced it to Singaporeans by way of a Facebook post. He said that ...

Key workers set to be top of list in 'phase two' of vaccine roll out Bus drivers, teachers and supermarket staff may be immunised after the most vulnerable 30 December 2020 • 6:10pm Bus workers may be prioritised after concerns over high infection rates Credit: Henry Nicholls/Reuters Key workers and those in customer-facing jobs may be next in line for Covid-19 vaccination once the 25 million most vulnerable Britons have been inoculated, a senior government adviser suggested on Wednesday. Speaking for the first time about “phase two” of the vaccine roll-out - which comes after all thos...

Don't focus on herd immunity, vaccination should be comprehensive: COVID-19 panel expert Toggle share menu Advertisement Don't focus on herd immunity, vaccination should be comprehensive: COVID-19 panel expert Associate Professor Lim Poh Lian, an infectious diseases outbreak expert, dressed in personal protective equipment. (Photo courtesy of A/Prof Lim) 28 Dec 2020 10:25AM) Share this content Bookmark SINGAPORE: Rather than aim for a certain percentage of the population to be inoculated to achieve COVID-19 herd immunity, Singapore should vaccinate as many p...

December 18, 2020 Determining whether a vaccine is safe for certain groups of people needs to be guided by data from vaccine studies. The Straits Times SINGAPORE - There are some groups of people who should wait to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, including those with a history of severe allergic reactions, said a panel of experts on Thursday (Dec 17). Serious allergies usually refer to people who, in response to a specific stimulus such as a bee sting or medication, experience swelling around the mouth, eyes or face, have difficulty breathing or experience a serious drop in blood pressure, said A...

SINGAPORE - A Covid-19 vaccination is not risk-free, but the risk is small, and a person in fact puts himself, his loved ones and society at higher risk by not getting a jab, experts said at a Straits Times Reset webinar, The A-Z of Covid-19 vaccine, on Thursday (Dec 17). "It's not a matter of saying, if I do nothing, we're okay. The weighing is really not between the vaccine and nothing, but the vaccine and the disease," said Associate Professor Lim Poh Lian, director of the high-level isolation unit at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and a member of the Ministry of Health's Co...