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Health Check Podcast: Understanding Singapore’s portfolio approach to vaccine procurement
Professor Benjamin Seet, deputy group chief executive for education and research at the National Healthcare Group and a member of the expert committee on Covid-19 vaccination, joins us on this episode of Health Check.PHOTO: COURTESY OF BENJAMIN SEET
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February 02, 2021
The selection involved many cold calls to companies to find out more about their vaccines
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SINGAPORE - Last June, Singapore sealed its first deal to buy Covid-19 vaccines - before any of the more than 200 vaccine candidates had even started their phase three clinical trials.
It decided not to wait for the trials, and even paid a premium on the price, in order to secure some early stock of vaccines for people here at high risk, such as healthcare workers and the elderly.
That was for the Moderna mRNA vaccine, which has yet to be approved for use here.
January 31, 2021
Existing vaccines work against the virus variants circulating in the community, say experts.
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SINGAPORE - New variants of the virus that causes Covid-19 have recently caused some concern that they may evade the immune response induced by existing vaccines, but there is no evidence yet of this occurring, said experts here, urging people not to hesitate over getting vaccinated. Existing vaccines work against the virus variants circulating in the community, so people should continue to step up to receive the vaccine, said Professor Benjamin Seet, deputy group chief executive for education and research at the National Healthcare Group and a member of the expert committee on Covid-19 vaccination.