When RMG received the call to set up a vaccination centre at Changi Airport T4, it took just five days to get the whole operation up and running. Last week, more than 1,000 aviation workers were vaccinated there in a trial run of operations. Full-scale vaccination of air crew and front-line workers started on Mon, and the centre will inoculate 7,000 people this week. There is scope to ramp up capacity even further, said the centre’s lead physician, Dr Tan Joo Peng. “We have 27 vaccination stations, so based on a conservative planning norm of 12 patients per hour and 14 hours of operations per day, I am fairly confident we can do 4,000 vaccinations, if not more. The aim, he said, is to keep the total time it takes for a person to get vaccinated to under an hour, including 30 minutes of observation time to ensure there are no adverse effects. A medical fridge, which can store more than 10,000 doses, was specially brought in as the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has to be stored at minus 70 deg C.... Continue Reading