More than 175,000 children aged between five and 11 have got at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose


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SINGAPORE – More than 175,000 children aged between five and 11 have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, a month after the national inoculation programme was expanded to include that age group. More than 25,000 of them have received both jabs, including the youngest of Education Minister Chan Chun Sing’s three children. Revealing this in a Facebook post on Friday (Jan 28), he said many parents have welcomed the move to allow them to get their children vaccinated without the need to piggy-back on their siblings’ appointments. Since Tuesday (Jan 25), children aged five to 11 can...