After hitting 80% vaccine threshold, Singapore aim to forge ahead with plans of reopening its country

People ride in sailboats in the sea along East Coast Park in Singapore on Aug 28, 2021. - AFP

SINGAPORE, Aug 29 (Bloomberg): Singapore has outpaced most advanced economies to fully vaccinate 80% of its population against Covid-19, paving the way for the small but wealthy city-state to forge ahead with reopening in an approach that’s closely watched by the rest of the world still figuring out how to live with the virus.

"We have crossed another milestone, where 80% of our population has received their full regimen of two doses,” Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said in a Facebook post on Sunday. "It means Singapore has taken another step forward in making ourselves more resilient to Covid-19.”