Over 74% of those given wrong Covid-19 vaccine dose at Singapore polyclinic receive replacement


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SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): As at 4.30pm on Monday (Oct 25), 86 out of the 117 people who had received the wrong dose of Covid-19 vaccine at Bukit Merah Polyclinic have received their replacement dose, SingHealth Polyclinics' chief executive Adrian Ee told The Straits Times.

SingHealth Polyclinics had said on Sunday that an error in administering the vaccine resulted in six staff and 111 patients receiving a much lower dose - about one-tenth - of the Covid-19 vaccine.

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