ASEAN HEADLINES: COVID DELTA VARIANT: SINGAPORE- S’pore cannot rely solely on vaccines to fight Covid-19 Delta variant, must keep guard up, says NCID director

SINGAPORE – When it comes to the Delta variant of Covid-19, one thing has become clear: Vaccination is not enough.

This means Singapore cannot let up in its fight against the disease, said Professor Leo Yee Sin, executive director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID).

“If I did 100 per cent in 2020, this year I have to do 200 per cent – because that is what the Delta variant demands of us,” she told The Straits Times in an interview to commemorate the centre’s second year of operations. “We cannot solely rely on vaccines.”