Singapore’s Covid cases are on the rise, but most young children aren’t fully protected by jabs
- Only 28 per cent of children aged five to 11 in Singapore have ‘minimum protection’ against the disease, according to the city state’s Health Ministry
- Weekly Covid case numbers topped an estimated 27,000 last month, amid a steady increase in the average daily number of hospitalised cases
It said in response to queries on Covid booster take-up rates that just 28 per cent of children aged five to 11 had received the number of doses required to achieve minimum protection – compared to 81 per cent of the total population; 87 per cent of people aged 12 to 59; and 89 per cent of those aged 60 and above – as of April 23.
Singapore began offering children aged five to 11 booster shots, five months after their second vaccine dose, in October last year. The ministry does not recommend that children in that age group receive more than three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or Novavax vaccines.
The city state’s health ministry also said on Saturday that most Covid-19 patients who were hospitalised or required oxygen supplementation had not received a booster dose within the last year.
