Booster shots of Covid vaccine will be a key part of Singapore's strategy to combat impact of Omicron, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday, exuding confidence that city-state can cope with new variant of coronavirus even though country is "not yet out of woods" Singapore reported its first local Omicron case last Thursday -- a front-line worker at Changi Airport who was infected despite already receiving a booster Covid-19 vaccine shot Singapore is starting to see "encouraging signs" in its COVID-19 journey. "The surge in cases over last three months is subsiding. We have protected our healthcare system and kept fatalities low," Lee said "Now, we are preparing for impact of Omicron variant.

Booster shots of vaccine will be a key part of our strategy," he said at an event where he launched a 130-million Singaporan dollar Community Development Councils voucher scheme,

the Channel News Asia reported A total of 1.3 million Singaporean households will each receive 100 Singaporan dollars in digital vouchers that can be used at participating hawkers and heartland shops Noting that "we are not yet out of woods", Lee said, "but we are confident that we can cope with Omicron, because with vaccinations and boosters, we are in a much stronger position today to deal with COVID-19."                On Friday last, health ministry announced that vaccination for kids aged five to 11 years using pediatric doses of Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty Covid-19 vaccine would begin before end of year It also announced that from Tuesday.   

the nationwide vaccination booster programme would be extended to individuals aged 18 to 29

As on Friday last, 30 per cent of the total population have received their booster shots

The number of Covid-19 cases reported by the Ministry of Health (MOH) daily has been on the decline, The Straits Times reported

Since the middle of last month, the number of new cases has fallen from around 2,000 or 3,000 a day to fewer than 1,000, it said

According to Johns Hopkins data, Singapore has so far recorded 273,362 confirmed Covid cases and 794 deaths due to the disease