Singapore omits Sinovac 発射s from COVID-19 ワクチン接種 一致する
By Aradhana Aravindan and Chen Lin
SINGAPORE, July 7 (Reuters) - People who received Sinovac Biotech 発射s are 除外するd from Singapore's count of total ワクチン接種s against COVID-19, 公式の／役人s in the city 明言する／公表する said, 特記する／引用するing 不十分な efficacy data for the Chinese-made ワクチン, 特に against the contagious Delta variant.
"We don't really have a 医療の or 科学の basis or have the data now to 設立する how 効果的な Sinovac is ーに関して／ーの点でs of 感染 and 厳しい illnesses on Delta," health 大臣 Ong Ye Kung said during a マスコミ 要点説明 on Wednesday.
The Delta variant has become the most 流布している 緊張する of COVID-19 in Singapore since a cluster of 感染s was identified at the airport in May. The 政府 subsequently moved 支援する to 厳格な人 抑制（する）s on social 集会s and public activities, though it has begun relaxing some of those 制限s.
Only people who 参加するd in the 国家の immunisation programme, which 現在／一般に uses the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech/Cominarty 発射s, are counted in the 一致する for ワクチン接種s.
More than 3.7 million people have received at least one dose of the Pfizer or Moderna ワクチンs, covering about 65% of the 全住民, and nearly 2.2 million have 完全にするd the two-dose regimen.
Singapore has 始める，決める a 的 for two-thirds of its people to be fully vaccinated by around Aug. 9.
に引き続いて an 緊急 use 是認 by the World Health Organization (世界保健機構), Singapore began 許すing 指定するd 私的な clinics to 申し込む／申し出 the Sinovac 発射, CoronaVac, from 中央の-June. Singapore had a 在庫／株 of 200,000 CoronaVac doses which the clinics could draw on.
As of July 3, just over 17,000 people had received one dose of CoronaVac, and 当局 say that 需要・要求する for the ワクチン appeared to 次第に減少する off after an 初期の 急ぐ.
Last month, Kenneth Mak, Singapore's director of 医療の services, said 証拠 from other countries showed people who had taken CoronaVac were still gettin g 感染させるd, 提起する／ポーズをとるing a 重要な 危険.
And Singapore has said that people vaccinated with CoronaVac would still need to be 実験（する）d for COVID-19 before …に出席するing 確かな events or entering some 発生地s, unlike people vaccinated under the 国家の programme.
Singapore has 報告（する）／憶測d 62,652 感染s since the pandemic first 爆発するd last year, with most 設立する in foreign 労働者 domitories. But there were only five new 地元で-acquired 事例／患者s 報告（する）／憶測d on Wednesday. COVID-19 関係のある deaths stood at 36, one of the lowest 率s in the world. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Aradhana Aravindan and Chen Lin in Singapore Editing by Ed Davies & Simon Cameron-Moore)
