Vaccinated people make up 75% of recent Covid-19 cases in Singapore, but few fall ill


A wet market is cordoned off to limit entry and exit points after a surge in the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Singapore July 23, 2021. - Reuters

SINGAPORE, July 25 (Reuters): Vaccinated individuals accounted for three-quarters of Singapore's Covid-19 infections in the last four weeks, but they were not falling seriously ill, government data showed, as a rapid ramp-up in inoculations leaves fewer people unvaccinated.

While the data shows that vaccines are highly effective in preventing severe cases, it also underscores the risk that even those inoculated could be contagious, so that inoculation alone may not suffice to halt transmission.

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