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- Singapore's Covid-19 vaccination strategy turned out to be what got the nation through the pandemic
- Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said this after the release of a White Paper on Singapore's Covid-19 response
- The report documented several things that Singapore got right and also got wrong in its pandemic fight
- Mr Wong said the Covid-19 outbreak in workers' dormitories in April 2020 could have been a disaster
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SINGAPORE — Singapore's Covid-19 vaccination plan was an important exit strategy that the country got right, whereas the spread of the infectious disease in workers' dormitories was one of the "biggest challenges" it had to overcome, Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said.
Mr Wong, who is also Finance Minister and former co-chair of the ministerial task force for Covid-19 that was stood down last month, said: “(The dormitory situation) could have possibly been a major disaster for us.
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