Medically-eligible but vaccine-shy people exact a cost on society

MAKING Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for the medically eligible might seem like an obvious policy decision. Indeed, in Monday's Views From The Top column in The Business Times, a majority of business leaders featured were in favour of doing so.

The medical benefits of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines have been shown - not just in the lab, but across the world, as millions of people get their jabs - to vastly outweigh the risks.

Conversely, the risks associated with being unvaccinated are playing out now, as Singapore rides out a Delta variant wave.