The biggest thing is that local spread is happening despite nearly-100% masking and despite vaccinations. Which prompted the government to trigger a lockdown.
A friend put it best: "it seems like we're back to uncertainty again, with some of these variants."
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Are you not concerted that Singapore might be in a perpetual state of lockdown indefinitely since as soon as you ease restrictions, cases rise despite nearly 100% masking, following the rules and good rate of vaccination?
Are alternatives being discussed - eg mass antigen tests?
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Given that the UK is at 50% and is one of the world leaders in this regard, Bulgaria (where I'm from) is at 10% and the world average is 9%, I would say - yes, a good rate of vaccination
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It’s not a good enough rate to reduce transmission so regardless of how it measures up against other countries, it is not something to be relied upon.
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My point is that 100% vaccinations at our airport and at our hospital failed to prevent transmissions. The current set of clusters started from fully vaccinated staff members (two doses Pfizer/Moderna) from which it spread to the community.
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I stand corrected: only 19/28 of the infected workers were fully (two dose) vaccinated. straitstimes.com/singapore/spee
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Yes. That’s what I had thought was the case at the airport. A mix. And possibly a trend toward the vaccinated people being older?
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I think what biased my reading was that initial reports for Changi was 9 out of 9 infected were fully vaccinated. I didn't realise that there were many unvaccinated cases!
I hope you're right about vaccinated people being older, but the infected vaccinated in TTSH weren't old.
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Who have you found is your best follow for the Singapore situation? Mine is
Thanks for sharing your views.
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