Allowing private hospitals to vaccinate will speed up the process of achieving herd immunity

Syringes with doses of the 'Comirnaty' Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. －Reuters

I would like to comment on the article entitled “Divided over private vaccine plan” that was published in The Star on March 6, 2021. I feel that there are some unfounded fears about this issue.

Firstly, let’s not lose focus of our priorities and what we need to do to fight this Covid 19 pandemic. That is, getting as many people vaccinated in the shortest possible time. This is the only way to bring our infection numbers down.