Update and Details of Home-based COVID-19 Vaccination Programme, Take-up Rate among Seniors and Plans to Manage COVID-19 as Endemic Disease

31 Ms Tin Pei Ling asked the Minister for Health (a) what is the latest status of the home-based COVID-19 vaccination programme; (b) how many recipients of this programme are seniors; and (c) how effective may this programme be in encouraging seniors to receive the COVID-19 vaccination.

32 Ms Joan Pereira asked the Minister for Health in order to encourage more senior citizens to vaccinate against COVID-19, whether the Ministry will consider enlisting the help of volunteer nurses to work with grassroots volunteers during its house-to-house engagement efforts.

33 Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Health in light of plans to manage COVID-19 as an endemic disease and to scale down case-by-case information releases, whether the Ministry will consider the routine release of more aggregate summary statistics to the public such as estimates of Reproduction Number (R0), case counts for each variant, and source country/region for imported cases.

Mr Ong Ye Kung: These questions have been addressed via a Ministerial Statement by the Minister for Health, in his capacity as Co-Chair of the Multi-Ministry Task Force, on 26 July 2021. [ Please refer to "Fifth Update on Whole-of-Government Responses to COVID-19", Official Report, 26 July 2021, Vol 95, Issue 33, Ministerial Statement section. ]