Ong Ye Kung urges more people, especially seniors, to get bivalent jab amid Covid-19 mutation risk as China opens up

Visiting one of the newly deployed mobile vaccination teams on Monday at Hong Kah North Community Centre, Mr Ong said that “everything in general is calm, but at the same time, we also wanted to be prepared”.

He said that as the northern hemisphere winter approached, there would be increased hospital loads due to the spreading of diseases, and the reopening of China could lead to mutations of covid-19. “What we worry more is what kind of mutations may come out of China. So that’s what we’re watching,” he added.An MOH spokesperson said on Monday that as at Dec 11, 386,000 doses of the bivalent vaccine have been issued.

Mr Ong spoke on the importance of vaccination for seniors, stating that “amongst older people 70 and above, who are not up-to-date or do not have minimum protection of the vaccination…we get about 70 ”. An up-to-date vaccination is a person who has minimum protection and has taken their additional bivalent dose, or if their last dose was below five months ago, according to the MOH.

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