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Singapore's situation amid the COVID-19 pandemic is "unique", even among countries and regions that have access to vaccines, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Monday (26 July).
"(Singapore is) perhaps the only country in the world, which has not suffered a collapse of our hospitals nor a high death toll, and at the same time achieved a very high vaccination rate in our population," said Ong while delivering a Ministerial Statement in Parliament.
"This uniqueness is due to the unity of our people, the trust amongst them, and between the people and government," added Ong, who is also co-chair of the multi-ministry taskforce on COVID-19.
As of 25 July, about 54 per cent of Singapore's population has received two doses of an mRNA vaccine, with the government projecting that almost 80 per cent will be fully vaccinated by early-September.
Ong pointed to countries such as the US, UK, Israel and "many" in the European Union that experienced "major episodes of widespread transmission, their hospitals overwhelmed and with many fatalities".
He also noted that Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, which had initially kept their outbreaks under control, were now finding it a challenge to get their residents vaccinated, "partly because their lives have not been very threatened by COVID-19".
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