Singapore, Jun 27 (PTI) A group of doctors, including cardiologists, in Singapore have urged the nation s expert committee on COVID-19 vaccination to halt the vaccine exercise for some 200,000 school boys, following the death of a 13-year-old student in the US after he was jabbed, a media report said on Sunday. In an open letter, which was posted on Facebook on Saturday by a cardiologist Dr Kho Kwang Po and addressed to chairman of the expert committee Professor Benjamin Ong, the doctors said that vaccination exercise needs to be delayed briefly until the CDC and other organisations worldwide have produced more robust and convincing data on the case, The Straits Times reported.
SINGAPORE - The Expert Committee on Covid-19 vaccination said it is aware of an open letter calling for a halt in vaccinating Singapore s youths and is closely monitoring local and global data to keep its recommendations fresh, said the Ministry of Health in a statement on Sunday (June 28).
The open letter, posted on Facebook on Saturday by a doctor, Dr Kho Kwang Po, was addressed to Professor Benjamin Ong, chairman of the expert committee. It comes after a 13-year-old American boy died days after he received a second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The letter, said to be penned on behalf of many concerned paediatricians, primary care physicians, specialists, surgeons and GPs , had called for a pause in Singapore s vaccination exercise until the US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and organisations elsewhere have produced more robust and convincing data on the case.
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