This comes as the SAF prepares to live with an endemic COVID-19 and further reduce disruptions to National Service activities even if a soldier tests positive.
In the interview to mark SAF Day on Thursday, Dr Ng highlighted that the number of COVID-19 cases in the SAF remains “very low”, with the majority getting infected outside the SAF. “And apart from the circuit breaker when we pre-emptively delayed the BMT, we have not had to disrupt any major training, or any training in fact.”With more personnel being vaccinated, Dr Ng expects fewer disruptions to activities like in-camp training and the individual physical proficiency test .
As for Exercise Wallaby in Australia, SAF’s largest overseas training exercise, Dr Ng said Singapore has to wait for the green light from authorities there. READ: ‘Smart’ RSAF airbases to use drones to detect intruders, more efficient munitions loader will be deployedIn an environment where COVID-19 is endemic, the SAF will move forward with a “three-pronged strategy” of vaccination, improved testing and surveillance, as well as cohorting, said MINDEF.
“If nationally, the vaccination rates go up and we move towards the kind of situation that we dealt with H1N1, then you can reduce some of that cohorting as well,” Dr Ng said.H1N1 has infected hundreds of thousands of people in Singapore with 18 deaths since the first case was reported in 2009, meaning it could be more infectious but less severe than COVID-19, Dr Ng said.
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