This photograph taken on Saturday, June 19, 2021 shows a woman walking her dog past Fernando Botero's Bird statue in Singapore. - AFP
SINGAPORE, June 20 (Bloomberg): Singapore’s government said more than half its population has received at least one Covid-19 vaccine shot, the first Southeast Asian nation to cross this milestone in the battle against the pandemic.
"Most happy this morning when I received an update that slightly more than 50% of our population have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine, ” the city-state’s Health Minister Ong Ye Kung posted on his Facebook page on Saturday.
About 36% have received two doses, he said.
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