SINGAPORE: Health Minister Ong Ye Kung and his counterparts from the Group of Twenty are aiming to vaccinate at least 40 per cent of the world against COVID-19 by the end of the year.
Singapore attended the meeting as a guest country at the invitation of Italy, the current G20 presidency. In his three interventions made during the meeting, Mr Ong spoke about Singapore’s COVID-19 experience as a city-state, emphasising the importance of strengthening health emergency preparedness in an urban setting.
The vaccination rate for seniors above 70 in the country now stand at 88 per cent, when it used to be between 60 and 70 per cent."Our weakness was our primary care system. To get the most vulnerable members of our society to get vaccinated, you need a strong primary care system to persuade them. So when we think about other countries, the problem will be multi-fold."
In his second intervention, Mr Ong noted that COVID-19 infections occur disproportionately in cities due to population densities and interaction, and that Singapore would be including urban health preparedness in future runs of the country's capacity-building programmes for developing countries. He said that he hoped all countries would refrain"to the maximum extent" the imposition of export controls of essential medical items and vaccines.
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