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Cargo containing pharmaceuticals, with a thermal blanket to maintain low temperatures, being loaded up a Singapore Airlines plane on Dec 5, 2020.- ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A critical part in the distribution of the temperature-sensitive Covid-19 vaccines, made by Moderna and Pfizer and BioNTech, is to ensure a specified temperature range is maintained.
In Singapore, stringent checks are in place that ensure the cold chain for these vaccines is not compromised and that the vaccines remain safe and effective, experts said on Thursday (Dec 17) during a Straits Times webinar on Covid-19 vaccination.
Their assurance comes after the Government announced on Monday its plans to roll out Covid-19 vaccines in Singapore soon, including the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.
SINGAPORE - A critical part in the distribution of the temperature-sensitive Covid-19 vaccines, made by Pfizer and BioNTech as well as Moderna, is to ensure a specified temperature range is maintained.
In Singapore, stringent checks are in place that ensure the cold chain for these vaccines is not compromised and that the vaccines remain safe and effective, experts said on Thursday (Dec 17) during a Straits Times webinar on Covid-19 vaccination.
Their assurance comes after the Government announced on Monday its plans to roll out Covid-19 vaccines in Singapore soon, including the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which the Health Sciences Authority has approved.
SINGAPORE - There are some groups of people who should wait to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, including those with a history of severe allergic reactions, said a panel of experts on Thursday (Dec 17).
Serious allergies usually refer to people who, in response to a specific stimulus such as a bee sting or medication, experience swelling around the mouth, eyes or face, have difficulty breathing or experience a serious drop in blood pressure, said Associate Professor Lim Poh Lian, the director of the high-level isolation unit at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases.
Others who belong to certain groups - such as pregnant women, immunocompromised persons and those under the age of 16 - should also hold off on receiving the shots, as large-scale clinical trials have not involved such volunteers. This means there is not yet enough data to evaluate the safety of a Covid-19 vaccine on these groups of people.
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A Covid-19 vaccination is not risk-free but the risk is small and a person in fact puts himself, his loved ones and society at higher risk by not getting a jab, experts said at a Straits Times Reset webinar series on the A-Z Of Covid-19 vaccines yesterday. It s not a matter of saying, if I do nothing, we re okay. The weighing is really not between the vaccine and nothing, but the vaccine and the disease, said Associate Professor Lim Poh Lian, the director of the high-level isolation unit at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and a member of the Ministry of Health s Covid-19 Vaccine Expert Committee.