4 Covid-19 vaccination centres to close by end of Sept as more are fully vaccinated | THE BIG STORY

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1:24 - 4 VACCINATION CENTRES TO CLOSE BY END OF SEPTEMBER

3:08 - LOCAL COVID-19 CASES IN TRIPLE DIGITS SINCE AUG 24

8:19 - SINGAPORE NEWS

10:18 - NEW MALAYSIAN PM ISMAIL UNVEILS CABINET

With 79 per cent of Singapore's population fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as at Aug 25, the Health Ministry said on Friday (Aug 27) that it will close four out of 37 mass vaccination centres, and shift operations to our regular healthcare providers, Public Health Preparedness Clinics, mobile and home vaccination teams.

However, locally transmitted cases have been in the hundreds since Aug 24, following downward-trending numbers since July 30. Professor Dale Fisher, senior consultant at National University Hospital's Division of Infectious Diseases, discusses the trends we have been seeing in the past week. https://str.sg/3iEH

In other local news, liberal arts institution Yale-NUS College will stop accepting new students with the current freshmen intake being its final cohort. Yale-NUS will merge with NUS' University Scholars Programme to form a new college, which will open by August 2022. https://str.sg/3ibo

Across the Causeway, Malaysia's new prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob unveiled his Cabinet on Friday. Tasked with dealing with the country's raging Covid-19 crisis, former Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin will be helming the Ministry of Health. The other key portfolios of defence, finance, education and home affairs will continue to be led by the same ministers as the previous administration. In another move that takes a leaf out of predecessor Muhyiddin Yassin’s book, Mr Ismail has left the deputy premiership post empty. https://str.sg/3iEW

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